Re: Fwd: kernel 2.6.25 serial port bug [continued]

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Hi Marvin,

Thanks very much for info.

I now, do get my Robotics to do a handshake with my ISP, however, the connect cuts off after a few seconds. Part of the problem *may* be in my connect setup, & I will do more tomorrow to investigate details on this aspect. What would help this, for me presently, is some kind of forum & or on line manual... my ISP could only give me the DNS addresses & host/domain name...

I think, here (Ubuntu/Linux), it is mostly just a terminology & form difference than what I am more familiar with (earlier Macs & Windows XP) but perhaps not, too (?).

Thanks again. Will be back.

Henry

At 10:23 PM 7/26/2008, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
Henry,

The info below may/maynot be cogent to your US robotics Controller
chipset modem.
Unless a failure is encoutered, assume it is not.

There is alternate support for the 11c1:0620 Agere modem,
but a bit more difficult to implement.

MarvS
scanModem maintainer


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:  <jb1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Subject: kernel 2.6.25 serial port bug [continued]
To: Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: btech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Another thread discussing the kernel 2.6.25 serial port bug has
appeared in the minicom discussion group,"minicom 2.3 (which termcap)
and kernel 2.6.25.1 (DTR)". The original post:
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/minicom-devel/2008/000872.html
implies a fairly specific way to detect the bug (and find the faulty
code) using minicom. The second post:
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/minicom-devel/2008/000873.html
states, "The 8250 drivers in versions 2.6.25 through 2.6.25.7 are
broken. 2.6.25.8 (and later) works." I don't know R.L. Horn except
through his posts on this topic, but he seems quite knowledgable.

If any of the developers or, worse yet, the modem manufacturers have
emulated the faulty 8250 code it might explain the difficulties and
inconsistencies they're encountering under 2.6 kernels. I've also
noticed a few users reporting problems setting up their wvdial init
strings; maybe some of these are related to the problem described in
the first minicom post above.

A correction to my previous message (shown below): minicom is a
text-only *serial terminal* program, not a *browser* ... DUH!.


On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, jb1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> It seems that the linmodem developers are having more difficulty than usual adapting their code to recent kernels. Some time ago you or Jacques posted a message about the kernel rejecting non-GPL modules; now the kernel developers have introduced a bug into the serial driver in at least some of the 2.6.25 kernels! I stumbled across three threads in the minicom discussion group. They all seem to be the same problem, but the "subject" evolved as its nature became better understood. Here are the "original posts" of the threads:
>  http: //lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/minicom-devel/2008/000849.html
>  http: //lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/minicom-devel/2008/000850.html
>  http: //lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/minicom-devel/2008/000852.html
> In case you're unfamiliar with it, "minicom" is a text-only command-line
> browser.
>
> It seems unlikely that the linmodem drivers would be directly affected by the bug, but the developers should at least be aware of it. I vaguely remember someone with a *hardware* modem reporting difficultly configuring wvdial; maybe it was due to this bug.
>
> I've sent this message to you alone because I doubt that it would be of much use to the whole group but of course you may do with it as you wish. As always, thank you, Jacques, et. al., for your great work.
>
> P.S.
> There's a typo in the scanModem.gz I downloaded a few minutes ago. The second line contains a space before the "y" in your last name.



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