[] Schneider
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Alex Holden wrote:
> After nearly a week of aggravation (I had got to the stage of imagining
> what a nice crunching noise the PC would make when it landed in the street
> outside :), I finally managed to get my baycom modem working at 2 o' clock
> this morning. The problem wasn't the modem, the software, or the commands
> I was giving to the software. The problem turned out to be that the baycom
> driver just doesn't like some modern UARTS (including, as it happens, the
> ones in both my PCs). It works perfectly on an ancient multi-io card
> pulled from my scrap heap of old computer parts.
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> I wonder if there is any way the baycom driver could be made to detect
> these evil deformed UART chips, and inform the user of the problem, so he
> won't have to go through what I did? The symptoms are that the driver
> detects and initialises the UART okay, and thinks everything is fine and
> dandy, but no interrupts are coming through. Perhaps the driver could time
> out if it doesn't recieve any interrupts from the UART after a set amount
> of time, and complain that either the interrupts are set up wrong or you
> have a dodgy UART. There should at least be a brief mention of the problem
> in the documentation for the driver, and probably the AX25 howto.
>
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