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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [Q] com1: silo owerflow and slip Message-ID: <hastyCC0rvp.63J@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Aug19.135931.165@ebc.ee> <250bki$r9m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 18:40:36 GMT Lines: 38 In article <250bki$r9m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: >In article <1993Aug19.135931.165@ebc.ee>, Marek Tiits <marek@utlib.ee> wrote: >> >> hi all! >> >> i've just successfully installed NetBSD 0.8 on ISA 486-33 with >>8 MB RAM and 350MB Conner IDE disk. BUT yhe problem is, that my 9600bps >>leased line slip connection is very unstable. I'm geting messages >> >> com1: silo overflow >> >>at console and connection is lost until roboot! what am i do to fix this >>problem?? > >Uh oh. If you were running FreeBSD or 386bsd, I would suggest you fire >up the converters, and run sio, which works pretty darn OK. I don't >know offhand what the NetBSD dudes have for serial drivers other than >the stock one. > >It is odd that you're having problems at 9600 baud, I would'nt have guessed >you'd have trouble on a 486 with 9600 baud. > >Are you sure you have modem control,flow control, and all that mumbo-jumbo >set up properly? Also, does the com port or modem have 16550 hardware buffer? If not, you will get com overflows... Regards, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming