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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: 16550A
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.172227.16546@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Aug25.215550.26919@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:22:27 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Aug25.215550.26919@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
- > From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
- > Date: 25 Aug 92 02:11:42 GMT
- >
- > > Does anyone else have problems with Linux not correctly "shutting down"
- > > the 16550? Ever since the kernel has supported a 16550, I have had to
- > > hard reset the computer after running linux, or it seems that the
- > > computer "forgets" that the port that contains the 16550, exists.
- >
- > I have always had this problem. I usually just hard reboot if I need
- > to use the modem again. Would be nice if this could be fixed.
- >
- >Once I have time to recover from moving to a new apartment, I'll make
- >changes to the version of the serial driver I've been working on to
- >shutdown the 16550A FIFO's upon device close, instead of leaving the
- >FIFO's enabled the whole time. I think this should fix the problem.
- >
- > - Ted
- >
-
- I've been having problems with 16450's in my two Linux machines. I haven't
- noticed it with my serial mouse, but my modem lines get forgotten my
- Linux. It doesn't happen all the time, so it is unpredictable. I will
- be connected somewhere, then all of a sudden get a little line noise and
- the serial port goes dead. If I disconnect the phone line quick enough,
- I can sometimes drop carrier and regain my serial port. Otherwise, it
- is dead until I reboot. This has happened with an internal modem in both
- of my machines, and with an external modem in my 386DX. I can "cat" files
- to the serial ports after this has occured, but the modem light don't
- come on so it acts like a "bit bucket". I don't get any "busy" messages
- or any kind of errors, I just can't use the ports. "stty sane" doesn't
- do it.
-
- Has anyone else encountered this problem or have any suggestions for getting
- around this? I hate to reboot the machine each time I lose the serial port.
-
- I had originally thought it was just the internal modem, but it must be
- Linux because it happens with more than one serial port on more than one
- machine. I use 16450's only.
-
- Thanks for any help,
-
-
- --
- Jim H.
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- * James L. Henrickson
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