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From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25.3: serial problem (minicom)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:32:54 -0500
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On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:22:07 -0500
Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2008 13:29:31 +0100 (BST)
> Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > --- Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > Serial console using minicom works fine for me under 2.6.25 and
> > > 2.6.25.4.  Keystrokes are accepted normally.
> > 
> > I have just replicated this problem between two Fedora 8 boxes;
> > minicom reads the remote serial console fine, provided it is running
> > on a 2.6.24.x kernel. (The serial console is from a 2.6.25.4
> > machine.)

> Mine still works.  I was going to bisect it, but I don't encounter the
> problem.

Another bit of info, FWIW: unlike your setup, the system at the other
end of my null modem cable is running Fedora 9, not Fedora 8.