From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 11:37:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA20557 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:37:25 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA20551 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:37:23 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id EAA29583; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 04:39:30 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508161909.EAA29583@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: file transfer over serial port locks up pc To: englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 04:39:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508161658.AA09445@johnwayne.src.honeywell.com> from "Matt Englehart" at Aug 16, 95 11:58:19 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1613 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Matt Englehart stands accused of saying: > > Hello, I'm running the April snapshot of 2.0 on a pc that is hooked up to a > network with the 3com 509b board. When I attempt to do a file transfer > over the serial port, the machine hangs. Sometimes I get a warning: messages > saying the silo buffer is overflowwing (I have a UART16550A). I am > connceting with a 28800 modem, and between the pc and the modem I have > tried 38400 and 115200. This happens when I try transfering a file using > any of the following applications: > > 1. netscape over ppp > 2. ftp over ppp > 3. rz/sz > 4. tupload over term (the term program, originally written for Linux) > > It seems as though things have gotten worse now that I've added the > ethernet interface. It used to rarely hang. Now it does within an instant > of attempting file transfer. > > I'm thinking of trying out 2.0.5R. Do you have enough of a clue as to what > the problem might be to say that it might be eliminated in 2.0.5R? That depends on whether you fix your hardware problems first. I suspect that you have a configuration problem; more explicitly, I suspect that you have your ethernet controller on the same IRQ as one of your serial ports. > Matt Englehart -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[