Using pi-nredir works well untill in teh middle of a sync it disconnects. See the attached bug report above on pilot-link site for patch to fix problem,. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter export PILOTRATE=115200 2.pi-nredir 3. Actual Results: Disconnect half way through sync. Expected Results: No disconnected sync, sync should complete. emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.7-win4lin-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-win4lin-r5 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apm artsavi berkdb cddb cdr cgi crypt cups curl dga directfbdivx4linux dnd doc dv dvd encode esd fastcgi fax fbcon fdftk ffmpeg flac foomaticdb freetype fs fullrpc gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glade gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde libg++libwww mad maildir mcal mikmod mmx motif mozcalendarmozilla mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer nas ncurses net nls nptl oav odbc ofx oggvorbis ooo-kde openal opengl openssh oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp portaudio python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdk sdl slang slp snmp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype trusted usb v4l v4l2 videos virus-scan wifi wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xrandr xv xvid yv12 zlib"
what versions are you using? you might want to try the mailing list first to see if this is a known problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62873 ***
Created attachment 40133 [details, diff] patch from pilot-link bugs sight If the maintainers could test and apply this patch I would be greatly appreciative.