TIOCMBIS failed: Input/output error

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:44:25 +0200

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Hi,

On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 05:00:23PM +1200, Raoul Mackle wrote:
> I have a dial-up server running with RedHat Linux and mgetty, most of the
> time it works fine, however with this one particular clients machine (Win9x)
> it disconnects (seemingly randomly) and continues to cause problems for a
> while. I have found that when this problem happens I get this error message.

I'd suspect modem troubles...  classic case of "my modem doesn't like your
modem".  The error message might be a followup error because after a
carrier drop, no further access to the serial port is allowed.

gert
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