From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) Subject: Re: 16550 uarts and .99pl8 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 15:53:11 GMT
ewtroan@watson.ibm.com (Erik Troan) writes:
>In article <1993Apr20.114346.781@ositos.UUCP>, cmf@ositos.UUCP (Carl
>Fongheiser) writes:
>|> In article <1993Apr19.081303.15747@cs.tulane.edu>
>butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) writes:
>|> >Is anyone having problems with patchlevel 8 and 16550 uarts? Ever since I
>|> >changed from pl 6 to pl 8 I have been having problrms with characters
>|> >repeating. It's a little hard to explain. I clipped a couple of lines from
>|> >kermit while logged in to a remote system:
>|>
>|> I'm seeing the exact same thing with my Boca 4-port card. Kind of annoying
>|> when I'm using the modem to fetch stock quotes :-(
>|>
>|> Carl Fongheiser
>|> ositos!cmf@vpnet.chi.il.us
>I'm having that problem too! I've been running pl 7 before I bought
>my no-name 16550C card, and have reapeating characters intermittantly.
>Erik
I have *NOT* seen that problem. I am using a Twincom 14.4 internal modem
which has a 16550 on it. I can use Seyon and Term with no problems...
My modem is on COM1(port 3f8 I think) IRQ4, which is detected at boot-up.
Niels