Re: flow control on ttyS0

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From: Craig Sanders
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 01:27

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imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au (michael butler) writes:

>Craig Sanders (cas@muffin.apana.org.au) writes:

>: I'm having what I suspect is a flow control problem with my modem.

> [ .. ]

>: So, is this a hardware problem?  How can I set the flow control        ?
>: properly Do I need to use setserial or something                       ?

>I'm not sure about Linux but you MUST use some sort of flow control even
>when the line speed (DCE rate) approximates the computer <-> modem rate
>(DTE). Errors just become more obvious where there is a greater disparity
>between the two. 

>For an '8-bit transparent' transport as compressed UUCP news bundles
>require, your only real choice is to use RTS/CTS handshaking. Set S58=2 and
>leave S68=255 as you have it .. then explore how to get Linux to work with
>it.

Thanks, this seems to have fixed it.

I must have missed this when I spent hours poring over the manual a
couple of months ago when I first encountered this problem.  Since then
I've had a PEP connection so it hasn't bothered me, but my feed recently
dropped back to 2400bps causing the problem to appear again.

-- 
Craig Sanders                                     cas@muffin.apana.org.au

Be compassionate: Don't say "straight", say "psychedelically challenged"!

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From: cas@muffin.apana.org.au (Craig Sanders)
Subject: Re: flow control on ttyS0
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 01:27:35 GMT
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