YASPP (Yet another serial port problem)

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mjs at cbnews.ATT.COM (martin.j.shannon) writes:

>In article <10740 at attctc.Dallas.TX.US> cassidy at attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Cassidy Lynar) writes:
>>Hi, I am having problems *still* trying to bring up a third serial port
>>on my system.

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>>Ok, here is the actual problem, the kernel builds fine, getty spawns
>>fine, but the probs are 1) the getty process becomes a non-killable process
>>			2) when I cat foo >> /dev/tty02, the terminal on the
>>other end, receives the data at a smoking 1 cps or less.

>That's a symptom I recognize: the ASY driver is not getting interrupts
>from that card.  The only reason you get any output at all is the 1-second
>sanity timer used to deal with missed interrupts on heavily loaded machines.

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I am having the same problem.  Except I am using a non-intelligent
digiboard for my system.  I tried configuring all the ports on the same
interrupt, and had identical results.  So then I tried only two of the
ports, on two different interrupts.  Still the same problem, what do you
think could be wrong with mine ;-)  Interractive said their driver
might not be fast enough to handle 4 ports on the same interrupt, since
it checks all ports each time an interrupt is received.  But this
doesn't explain why the second configuration had the problem.

	brian


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