From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 08:32:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA10352 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [199.84.158.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10326 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA02189; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:30:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:30:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more general info on SIO problems in 2.1.5. In-Reply-To: <199608161433.KAA01375@lakes.water.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > The behaviour I get is that when large amounts of data are generated > at the other end (after dialing a remote system) - I get several > screen-fulls of output, then everything stops.. *However* from the > modem lights, I see that the modem is still receiving data... it's just > not getting to the kermit process to be written out. > > That is, it would appear that the process has going into ttywait > (for some reason) and can't get out, even though the modem itself > thinks things are just fine. This may be only a coincidence, however, this is the exact same behaviour exhibited by the Digiboard intelligent driver (dgb) when using a PC/4e card. This was on 2.1.0. I wonder if some things were cross pollinated along the way. Regards, Andrew Webster - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde 514-990-5911 - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3