serial: ERROR

[Louis Schmittroth]

I am running XENIX 2.3.2 on a 386.  This is a home machine that I use
for personal computing, but have a uucp connection with Athabasca U.

I have an intermittent problem on tty2A with an external Hayes compatible
2400 baud modem.  I have been runing this 386-20 for almost 2 years with
no problem for dialin users (very few -- some uucp).  About 3 weeks ago I
started getting the message:

serial: ERROR garbage or loose cable on dev 8 port shut down

I switched modems, switched cables, then put in a new serial card.  To
no avail.  After I switched the card, I thought it was cured since I had
several calls in sequence without the message.  Then for no apparent reason
the error occured again.  No problem dialing out, even after the error.

Any ideas?  


-- 
Louis Schmittroth, Computer Science, Athabasca University