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From: blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: TB2500 Problems with uucico
Summary: change to 16550 uarts
Message-ID: <5704@obdient.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Aug 90 18:02:07 GMT
References: <129@porky.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Obedient Software, Wheaton IL
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In article <129@porky.UUCP>, emeyer@eliabel.sf.ca.us writes:

[description of TB2500 installation deleted]

> ... uucico timeouts.
> Basically, it transfers a bunch of packets fast and after 5 or 10k
> it stops and timeouts, then after a few seconds restarts.
> uucico -d9 gives me 'alert' messages at every of such timeouts...

We had exactly the same symptoms here on obdient.  Change the uart chips
on your serial card to NS16550's - these have a 16 byte buffer in them.
They're availbale from JDR Microdevices in San Jose (800-538-5000) for
about $20 each (other sources available too, I'm sure).  You may
also want to add the FAS driver to your kernel, which is faster than
most vendor's i/o drivers for the i386 ports.  Until those chips arrive,
you'll probably have to change your interface speed to 9600, which is
still a darn bit faster than 2400 :-).

Doug
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