ftpd works fine, but I loose the bash shell through the serial port, and nothing more comes out of the serial port.. BUT I can still send commands .. (i.e., typing q drops out of the player, but I still can't do anything at that stage...)

Also, typing q kills the ftp daemon..

As for the q killing the ftp daemon, I'm not sure what that is about. But you should try running /bin/sh or bash after the player exits, otherwise you won't have a shell. And you also might need to put a loop in it so when the shell exits it jumps back up and reruns /empeg/bin/player.

I haven't tried this yet, but just some ideas..

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