From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 24 16:41:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D5037B589 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6ONcEo34348; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:38:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: John Amdor III Cc: FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <397CD175.5D44057B@radiks.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Amdor III wrote: > Make sure the serial port that you connect your new external modem to is > running a 16550 UART...anything faster than abt 14.4k on a 16450 causes > problems. Of course, if your MB is relatively new, that shouldn't be a > problem. On the other hand, if you are like me and keeping older > hardware alive, it does become a concern. There are two versions of the 16550 UART. There is the 16550 and the 16550A. Make sure it's the latter since the original 16550 lacks a decent buffer and can easily cause huge headaches. // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message