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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: Trouble w/ UUCP: ``Timed out when setting MIN to 1; retrying'' Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DxFpGJ.6uL@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <87u3tc2h45.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> <50r1b4$ja1@symiserver2.symantec.com> <8791amjd06.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 22:07:31 GMT Lines: 31 jacob@jblhome.ping.dk (Jacob Bohn Lorensen) writes: >>>>>> "tedm" == tedm <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> writes: > tedm> In <87u3tc2h45.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk>, > tedm> jacob@jblhome.ping.dk (Jacob Bohn Lorensen) writes: > >> at approximately 9/10 UUCP > >> connections my modem wont hangup the line > tedm> This kind of issue has come up before. > tedm> First, Taylor UUCP seems to do a "speed mode set" or some > tedm> such practically between every byte, and this upsets some > tedm> cloney buffered serial port chips. >What puzzles me, though, is that I used Taylor UUCP with absolutely >*no problems at all* with the same hardware running Linux. I have had >it auto-dial my UUCP provider twice per day (early morning and early >evening) for more than two years and it has always worked rock >steady. Now I have to monitor (and reboot several times) just to get >my news and mail. Guessing mode: probably the Linux driver checked to see if the to-be-set value for the speed was the same as the one currently selected. If it was, it probably did not touch the hardware. A similar patch is also available for the sio driver, check the mailing list archives Wilko