[rescue] More on the SS5

[Carl R. Friend]

    On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> Got the new chip in yesterday. Installed, reprogrammed it, got the expected
> responses. Yah!

    Great news!

> Now it auto reboots and I can't seem to figure out how to send a break
> sequence from my terminal. I also am having strange trouble where I can't
> read the boot messages unless at 9600/7e1 but then my login password isn't
> being recognized. I have to switch back to 9600/8n1 Argh! ;)

    Set your terminal emulator to ignore parity if you have the option.
"N" implies that, but I've seen some brain-dead emulators that dont
grok that "no parity" equals "ignore".  Also a "printenv" at the "ok"
prompt might yield clues.

    Cheers!

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