On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 21:10 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote: [...]
FWIW, I get the following results with an E3:
Er, I forgot to mention that you need different options for the E3 because, IIRC, the E3 starts up at 115200 baud rather than the 9600 of the E2.
Try:
pblq -s 115200 ping
...and see what that does.
(-s specifies the baud rate to do the handshaking at, aka slow mode; -f specifies the baud rate to switch to after handshaking, aka fast mode.)