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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HELP - which com driver should I use?
Date: 07 Aug 1993 07:09:47 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries Pty. Ltd.
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In-reply-to: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu's message of 4 Aug 1993 03:17:24 -0500
>>>>> On 4 Aug 1993 03:17:24 -0500, vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) said:
Vax> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu
Vax> I'm utterly confused. I need a com driver and slattach program that can
Vax> give me a 14.4kbps slip connection. I don't care about dialins, so no
Vax> bidirectional capability is needed. It's obvious I need CTS/RTS handling.
Vax> I thought I had it, by using stty to set it, but it may not be "sticking"
Vax> I have a 386bsd-0.2.3pk. What should I do or get to get hw flow control
Vax> working? Will 0.2.4 solve my problems?
Uh oh... I bet Terry is just cringing now. After a bit of a mail
exchange Terry Lambert managed to get through my thick noggin that I
may be leading people astray.
The problem is the classic "Well....it works ok for me..." one. I
have an old patchkit plus slightly hacked over kernel. I do _NOT_ use
Bruce Evans' serial drivers, I have hung on to Chris Demitrous' (sp??)
hacks to the com drivers - Chris himself said the patches were ugly
hacks and should be replaced. I have been told that the handling of
CTS/RTS is not quite right in the patch-kit serial drivers, I believe
that Bruce may be working on a fix but I do not know that for sure.
So the short answer is:
0.1 386BSD + pk0.2.2-beta + Brett's random hack + cgd com hacks => works
0.1 386BSD + pk0.2.{3,4???} => may not work :-(
BTW I did not have problems running at 14.4K without flow control only
when I tried enabling v.42bis did I need flow control (of course this
rides with the above proviso about my system setup)
--
Brett Lymn