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- From: jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: Loosing chars with ZyXEL 1496E+ and Coherent 4.0.1
- References: <1993Jan02.043138.6691@acme.gen.nz>
- Message-ID: <9301022435@erato.iowa-city.ia.us>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 08:35:18 +0100
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- From article <1993Jan02.043138.6691@acme.gen.nz>, by kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I):
- > kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
- >
- >> This is a modem (ZyXEL 1496E+) / Coherent (4.0.1) problem.
- >>
- >> Characters get lost between the PC and the modem. "at&t8" shows clearly,
- >> that characters get lost, so using another UUCP suite like Taylor won't
- >> help (much). I guess there's some trouble with my device driver. :-(
- >
- >
- > I think the basic problem is that your machine isn't fast enough to handle
- > the port at 19200, even though it's using hardware flow control.
- >
- > You need to either get one of those [16550] or slow down your modem
- > (probably dramatically).
-
- Slowing down the modem to 4800 makes everything work perfectly on my
- machine -- it's an effective stopgap measure until I can get a serial
- port with 16550s.
-
- -John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
-