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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 16550A
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.141030.9761@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:10:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.215550.26919@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug26.172227.16546@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug26.172227.16546@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
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- | 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
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- Does your software disable XON flow control? I've seen just wehat you
- describe when XON was left enabled and line noise looked like a ^S,
- shutting the output down.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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