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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:47:21 +1200."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Sounds like interrupt confusion to me.  Are you sure your IRQ is 
correct ?

> I've been trying to get an old 486 going as a router.  I've got two modems 
> I've been trying to use - one external 28.8K, one internal 56K.  I'm seeing 
> the same problem with both, and both modems are known to work OK with other 
> machines.
> 
> What I'm seeing looks like some sort of problem in buffering of output.  I go 
> to PPP, and enter terminal mode.  Whenever I enter anything, the reply is 
> always one step behind where it should be.
> 
> I type A        -  nothing echoed.
> I type T        -  the A gets echoed
> I type D        -  the T comes through
> I type T        -  the D comes through
> I type <return> -  the T comes through and the modem goes off hook (not 
>                      connected to phone line at present, so it drops again).
> I type <return> -  the "NO DIALTONE" message comes through.  Could have typed 
>                    anything, it's the output that the modem would have already 
>                    generated one step earlier.
> 
> 
> I'm using a freshly installed 3.2-RELEASE machine.  I saw the same symptoms 
> once before with a PCMCIA modem under 2.2.5-RELEASE.  On that machine, using  
> the external modem worked fine (the same external modem).
> 
> Does anyone know what's going on?  Is there a fix?
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Andrew McNaughton
> +64 4 389 6891
> andrew@scoop.co.nz
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/

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