Let's try that again... Agreed - I've seen it once where it spit 16 chars, long pause, 16 more chars, etc. This was due to the serial driver not getting interrupts. Regards, Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jun Sun" <jsun@mvista.com> To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> Cc: <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Strange behavior of serial console under 2.4.9 > "H . J . Lu" wrote: > > > > The serial console under 2.4.9 is very strange. It is very slow. I have > > no such problem with 2.4.3/2.4.5. Telnet is fine. > > > > That is usually a symptom when the serial interrupts are not correctly > delivered.