Very Computer

I just upgraded to a USRob. 28.8 Sportster (from a 9600 ick!).
I have been having problems dialing in every now and again, and worse, it
seems
when I running Netscape and the line disconnects, it seems to lock my
machine!!

Anyway, my machine is a gateway 486 66, 20mb ram, 1.2.8kernel.
With the 9600 modem, the SLIP connection worked fine, I didn't change the
vanilla rc.serial, and used a stock dip script. With the 28.8 I have to
try sveral
times for a connect, and I get disconnected alot. All the autoconfig AND
manual config is commented out in my rc.local, apart from 2 lines near the
beginning which perhaps are basci auto config lines?

I tried MSD in DOS, and it told me my UART chips are 8250 (serial rate
19.2).
Should I comment out those first two mystery  lines in my rc.serial and
replace
with
${SETSERIAL} /dev/cua1 uart 8250 port 0x2F8 irq 3
????
Will my mouse still work???
Do I need to change anything on the modem, as I understand it has a 16550
chipset???

Marcus

Hi!

[...]

Quote:>I tried MSD in DOS, and it told me my UART chips are 8250 (serial rate
>19.2).

This could be the problem. For a 28.8 Modem you need a serial card with a
16550 UART chip, which buffers the data, so the computer does not need to
to get the data bit by bit. Perhaps because of the missing buffer you lose
data and then you get disconnected. So buy a new serial card if you want
to use the Sportster and then set the port speed to 115200b/s.
[...]

Quote:>Will my mouse still work???

You can set the port speed for any serial line independently, so your mouse
will still work because it's on an other line (/dev/cua0 I guess).

Quote:>Do I need to change anything on the modem, as I understand it has a 16550
>chipset???

Normally not.

Tom.

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