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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 11:23:38 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        chip@chocobo.cx
Cc:        freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RS-485 on a PCM-4823 
Message-ID:  <200005191823.LAA09168@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 13:29:12 EDT." <20000519132912.A74009@setzer.chocobo.cx> 

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> I've got an Advantech PCM-4823 (single board computer with ethernet,
> VGA, IDE, 486 etc) running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, and am trying to use
> the boards second serial port in RS-485 mode.  Everything works fine
> if I use one of the RS-232 ports with an RS-485 adapter connected to
> it, but when I try to use the built in 485, nothing seems to get
> received, but transmission works fine (I can see it from the other
> end.) After a while, the kernel starts complaining on the console
> about
> /kernel: sio1: 1069 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 3735)
> and continues doing this for a little while, ending with a total of
> 12567 buffer overflows.
> 
> Anyone using RS-485 successfully or have any idea what I'm doing
> wrong?

The tty-level buffer overflows suggest that you're not actually reading 
from the port - there's a heap of data queued ready for someone to read 
from sio0, but nobody is.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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