Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 01:44:00 +0100, Hartmut Figge writes: >old uart's cannot handle such speed. don't remember exactly at the >momement, but wasn't 38400 the limitation for the 16450? 57600 for a 16450, at least in my old machine. &rw -- -- +++ EUnet/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 15.-17.2.'2k, Ebene02/Stan

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Frank Copeland
Scott Au wrote: >After installing and running minicom, I've noticed that my modem, a BOCA >ISA 28.8 modem is incredibly slow. Dialing my ISP shows text being received >with periodic pauses. >From personal experience one possibility is that serial interrupts are not being serviced quickly enough,

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Hartmut Figge writes: > that probably means, that you dont't have a 16550A uart. I have a 386/33 with a 16550A. > old uart's cannot handle such speed. However, that is not the symptom. The fact that he sees anything at all indicates that the UART is ok. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ha

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Hartmut Figge
"AU,SCOTT CHUONG" wrote: > Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 > second pause) etc. > > I'm running on a old 386-33Mhz with 8megs RAM so is it possible my that probably means, that you dont't have a 16550A uart. try dmesg | less and watch the lines beginning with

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Scott Au writes: > Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 > second pause) etc. You almost certainly have an IRQ conflict. Run 'setserial -g /dev/ttyS*' and post the result. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI