Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:35:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: ben@stuyts.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.5R: UUCP errors, no flow control? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960716223315.272H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9607162159.AA25913@daneel.stuyts.nl>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Ben Stuyts wrote: > > I would suspect your modem isn't set to assert hardware flow control then. > > Adjust your modem as necessary and see if that helps. > > Well, I checked both today, even tried two other modems (another ZyXEL 1496E+ > and a 2864), but still no good. :( > Finally I disabled the two rs232 ports in the motherboard's bios, and put in > an old isa-card with two 16450's and an LPT on it. Voila, it works... The > funny thing is, I still don't see any flow control, but the errors are gone. > Strange, huh? Could it be that the 16550 drivers are buggy? I guess I could > try building a kernel with the 16550 features disabled, or is there an easier > way to check this? Goofy. Your sio ports may be flawed. Did you poke around in BIOS setup? > Now, I wanted those additional ports anyway, but I read somewhere that that's > not possible due to the pc's com port irq sharing, right? You can't use the same IRQs. You can assign them different IRQs (like 10 & 11 assuming they aren't used for something else) and they will work. This assumes your BIOS supports such operations. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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