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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!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!acme1.ruhr.de!usenet From: Christoph Haas <chris@acme1.ruhr.de> Subject: Re: Problems with uucico X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: usenet@acme1.ruhr.de (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: localhost Organization: Private BSD Site, Witten Lines: 22 Message-ID: <873eygia4e.fsf@acme1.ruhr.de> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961023224820.1769C-100000@speedy.ruhr.de> <54pvdd$897@uriah.heep.sax.de> <54thaa$8ue@hannibal.camelot.de> <555rgi$621@uriah.heep.sax.de> <55apgr$ls@hannibal.camelot.de> <55dur4$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:40:17 GMT j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > (UMC8669F) ok, now that i have checked my ASUS board again, it seems to me that the "loosing sync on receive" problem does not only occur on boards with that broken UMC chip. i have a winbond chip on my board and i have the same problems that should only show up on UMC chips. now that i can't use any external modems i installed an internal one that has a uart of its own on board (no, it's not an asic. you can read 16c550 on the chip) and the problem is back. it seems to be impossible to have a working serial port, but i really don't know why. on my old board (a noname 486) everything works fine again. i'm not sure whether this is a hardware problem (again: ppp works fine on the ASUS thing) or a bug in the sio driver or in taylor uucp. i will check it with 2.2-RELEASE as soon as i can get it. maybe something has been fixed allready... (sigh)... -- If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.