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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Modem woes (intermittent connects) Date: 9 Oct 1994 19:17:39 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 21 Message-ID: <379fkj$27d@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <mldCxBIz5.2x7@netcom.com> <kientzleCxBK9n.BtC@netcom.com> <mldCxDJ8G.GsH@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <mldCxDJ8G.GsH@netcom.com>, Matthew Deter <mld@netcom.com> wrote: >kientzle@netcom.com wrote: >I also have noticed that using sp#38400 in the gettytab entry (i.e. >16550 to modem locked at 38.4k) produces problems. Switching back to >19200 solves some of my problems. (I was having connect trouble from >another USR at 14.4 when the port was locked at 38.4k.) Are there >known bugs in the sio drivers for going this fast? Both machines have >550 UARTS, both are 486's, and both are unloaded at the time of >testing... What kind of handshaking are you using on your modems? It doesn't matter how fast the UARTS will go if the computer doesn't have flow control turned on correctly. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.