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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] 16550 and rtscts patch
Message-ID: <1992Dec15.002944.11215@netcom.com>
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:29:44 GMT
References: <Bz25Io.L40@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Dec14.171834.7500@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
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In article <1992Dec14.171834.7500@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>In article <Bz25Io.L40@ucunix.san.uc.edu> pmartin@eniac.san.uc.edu (Paul Martin) writes:
>>
>>I applied the rtscts flow control patch to the com driver that was
>>posted here sometime back.  Now I cannot send anything to the modem.  The
>>modem does not receive the characters, and the command:
>>echo ats0=1 > /dev/com2
>>seems to hang until I shut off the modem.  This worked before the patch.
>>I am using 16550's.  By the way, the mouse on com1 still works fine.
>>
>>Any Ideas?
>
>I haven't had a chance to look at the patch yet (I did save it off);

I thought Chris Demetriou mentioned that there were some additional
changes needed to make this patch work (?)  Anyhow,  it is
incorported into his multiport serial driver and works fine.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>