From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 22:35:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA29358 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA29341 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00321; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:35:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: ben@stuyts.nl cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.5R: UUCP errors, no flow control? In-Reply-To: <9607162159.AA25913@daneel.stuyts.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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