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From: plocher@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Multi-port serial card
Message-ID: <113@uwspan.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 15:22:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwspan.113
Posted: Mon Oct  5 15:22:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 03:03:31 EDT
References: <204@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <841@usfvax2.UUCP> <337@nuchat.UUCP> <316@cimcor.UUCP>
Reply-To: plocher@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
Organization: UW-Madison Spanish Dept
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+---- mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) writes in <316@cimcor.UUCP> ----
| However, the ICC does have a brained damaged modem control support so I
| use it with remote terminals.
| I would guess that version Microport version 2.3 will make the serial
| problem at high speeds work better with all types of serial ports.  There
+----

Nope, the Bell drivers don't work with 2.3 :-(  Bell doesn't expect to bother
with the problem for "about a month"!  I reported the brain damaged modem
control to them about 3 weeks ago (on a Friday) and their response was "Are
you sure you configured things right?  No one else has complained."  After I
told them I was running a getty AND uucico on the same port they said "Oh, why
don't you just get another modem" !??!  The next Monday I talked to them and
they said that they had discovered a "major bug" in the ICC driver "on Friday"
and that they had a fix for it already.  Unfortunately, they were going to
delay sending the patch/bugfix out until a scheduled general upgrade "In a month
or so".  Also, "NO pre-release version will be shipped for any reason".

What this all means is that our ICC card is unusable for anything except one
direct connect terminal, and even then, the modem control stuff doesn't 
really work (turning terminal off doesn't log the user off).

Maybe by Christmas... :-(

All in all, Bell's Sales dept is better than Microport's, but Microport's
support/service beats Bell's hands down!