Re: 2.2.12: serial driver swapping characters?
The Doctor What (docwhat@gerf.org)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:50:59 -0500
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:57:04AM -0400, Mark Buda wrote:
> It seems really unlikely to me that CPU load could result in swapped
> or duplicated characters. But I think there is definitely some kind of
> problem in the serial driver for 2.2.11+ (at least) kernels. On my
> Toshiba 4020CDT, running 2.0.36, I can talk to my Palm IIIx and my
> digital camera. When I boot 2.2.11 or 2.2.12, I can't (reliably). It
> will work for a little while and then misbehave (pilot-manager says
> "Weird packet" and gets errors backing up the rest of the databases,
> kdcpi just stops printing further progress downloading images).
>
> I am running Debian 2.1 (slink) with a bit of potato (including glibc
> 2.1). I had no problems with these programs on this machine before
> switching to a 2.2 kernel.
>
> Running slink under VMWare, or in a chrooted environment (i.e.,
> without the newer potato libraries but with the newer kernel) also
> exhibits the problem (with pilot-manager; they may be two different
> problems, of course).
>
> I posted about this to debian-user, and got one response from somebody
> who claimed he was using pilot-manager with 2.2.12 with no problems.
>
> If I can reproduce this problem on another machine besides the one I
> do all my actual work on, I will try to determine what the most recent
> kernel that doesn't cause this behavior is and report my findings.
I have similar problems with my palm. I use pyrite, but the symtoms are
the same (wierd packet error, and then everything else bombs). Ditto for
my work machine. I haven't tried seeing what the
modem is doing, but ppp has been giving me grief. It almost looks like I
loose packets, but I never see the error light go on (unless I upload, but
that's a separate problem, and has been around a while).
Ciao!
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