From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 14:30:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from KIWI-Computer.com (kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B95637B788 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rick@KIWI-Computer.com) Received: (from rick@localhost) by KIWI-Computer.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA34361 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:29:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rick) From: "Rick C. Petty" Message-Id: <200006212129.QAA34361@KIWI-Computer.com> Subject: sio/modem troubles (buffering???) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:29:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Files: Trust no one! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, all. I am having difficulties with an ISA jumperable/PnP modem. It is of the NewCom brand, model 56kifxsp (x2 technology, speakerphone). It has two modes: PnP and you can also set jumpers to select COM 1 - COM 4 and IRQs 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 11, 10... I have two identical modems (purchased at the same time, everything is the same down to the lettering printed on the chips and the PCB). While running 3.4-RELEASE, I was using one of the modems jumpered to IRQ 10 on COM 4. It was working perfectly (except I never connected above 33.6). The other modem was set to PnP and popped into a windoze 98 box that dual-booted to 3.4. Using the PnP configuration utils in FreeBSD (boot -c followed by a long pnp command), I was able to get ppp(1) to recognize the COM port & rx/tx with the following problem... In term mode, when I type something, the echo back is exactly one character behind. So when I type "AT" I see "A" and "AT\n" I see "AT", etc. When I hit an extra return to get the "AT\n" echoed back, I notice that the modem response is paused and I must hit an extra \n to see the "OK". For all these troubles I've tried \n, \r, \n\r (^M^J) in all possible combinations but still get the same response. I can deal with this extra "buffering problem" but it gets worse-- when I dial into my ISP, I notice that the modem responds in chunks of at max 16 characters before I must hit return again. Ok, so after a dozen extra newlines, I can login and the server responds with the IP, DNS, etc. PPP pops out of term mode and gets stuck at "PPp ON>" until it times out. I think this is a buffering problem of some sorts. I tried disabling the FIFO buffers on that port (sio flags 0x2, also toggling flags 0x8, quicker output interrupt recovery), but I have the same problem. At least it's consistent: I tried the modem in both the PnP configuration and the jumpered modes, with different IRQs too. Upgrading to 4.0-RELEASE had the same troubles but worse in PnP mode since I could not configure the pnp params with the boot -c option. Back to 3.4-RELEASE and the second modem which had worked for at least six months, I installed lose98 to dual-boot, switched the good modem to PnP mode during the installation, and whoops! That modem doesn't work in either PnP mode or jumpered, under the exact same configuration I had working previously. I shouldn't have never even touched PnP mode... :( My guess was that the micro-crap '98 installation may have done something to the modem while it was configuring it, but even after resetting the BIOS PnP space & doing a fresh '98 install in the jumpered configuration, the modem still has the buffering problem. I even tried resetting to the factory defaults with an AT&F&W to no avail. In non-PnP mode, it should ignore '98 settings anyway, right? It sounds like some sort of buffering problem. I tried booting with fresh GENERICs (3.4 & 4.0) too. If this helps, I noticed an error message recently in the PPP log, but I am not sure-- it may have been present when the modem was working: tun0: Phase: deflink: /dev/cuaa3 doesn't support CD Here's a copy of my dmesg when my modem was in non-PnP mode, after it stopped working: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE+ #1: Sun Jun 11 21:02:00 EDT 2000 root@kristin.kiwi-computer.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KRISTIN Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x591 Stepping = 1 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x80000800 real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) config> pnp 2 0 os enable port0 0x2e8 irq0 10 config> irq sio3 10 config> pnp 1 0 os enable port0 0x530 port1 0x388 irq0 12 drq0 1 config> irq pcm0 12 config> drq pcm0 1 config> flags pcm0 0 config> pnp 1 3 os enable port0 0x220 irq0 9 drq0 0 drq1 7 config> irq pcm1 9 config> drq pcm1 0 config> flags pcm1 0x17 avail memory = 61542400 (60100K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc038b000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc038b09c. Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x00 on pci0.1.0 chip2: rev 0x47 on pci0.7.0 ide_pci0: rev 0x06 on pci0.7.1 chip3: rev 0x10 on pci0.7.3 Probing for devices on PCI bus 1: vga0: rev 0xf3 int a irq 11 on pci1.0.0 Probing for PnP devices: CSN 1 Vendor ID: CMI0001 [0x0100a90d] Serial 0x01000100 Comp ID: @@@0000 [0x00000000] Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 on isa sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 not found at 0x280 fe0 not found at 0x300 atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard atkbd0 irq 1 on isa psm0 not found sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio2 not found at 0x3e8 sio3: configured irq 10 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 10 on isa sio3: type 16550A pcm0 at 0x530 irq 12 drq 1 flags 0x9100 on isa mss_attach 0 at 0x530 irq 12 dma 1:1 flags 0x9100 pcm1 at 0x220 irq 9 drq 0 flags 0x17 on isa pca0 on motherboard pca0: PC speaker audio driver wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 9770MB (20010816 sectors), 19852 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, accel, dma, iordy acd0: drive speed 687 - 8593KB/sec, 128KB cache acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: CD-ROM 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in cs0 not found at 0x300 ie0: unknown board_id: f000 ie0 not found at 0x300 ep0 not found at 0x300 ex0 not found le0 not found at 0x300 lnc0 not probed due to drq conflict with pcm1 at 0 ze0 not found at 0x300 zp0 not found at 0x300 ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0xf on isa ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in ECP+EPP mode (EPP 1.9) ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold lpt0: on ppbus 0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus 0 plip0: on ppbus 0 bt0 not found at 0x134 adv0 not found at 0x330 aha0 not found at 0x134 vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface joy0 at 0x201 on isa joy0: joystick changing root device to wd0s1a Your help and ideas would be greatly appreciated! --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy rick@kiwi-computer.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Principal Architect, KIWI Computer http://kiwi-computer.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message