Re: [lug-nuts] Re: serial port timeout?

From: William Kendrick (nbs@sonic.net)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2000 - 22:35:08 PST


>
> Badly configured baud rate? IRQ conflict? Badly written program? Bad
> connection? Corrupted buffer?

Yeah, but why suddenly? It worked fine after I first set it up... For weeks.

> I thought it's interesting to note that the serial port is reported to be
> okay for exactly 3 seconds, then times out exactly 7 seconds later. It
> seems to be synchronizing/unsynchronizing at a constant rate, which may
> be due to the baud rate problem. Did you set the serial port baud rate
> to the proper rate using setserial or a similar program?

Umm... the only recent baud rate changes I made were ones specificially used
by the 'pilot-xfer' family of programs.

  setenv PILOTRATE 57600

in my .cshrc

But, why would this affect my OTHER serial port? And why would it happen
on virtual consoles where I'm _not_ logged in?

> Just a guess.

Thanks! :)

-bill!
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