Re: serial on lombard

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999, Michael Schmitz
<schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:

>Nah, that's the 2.5 sec wait for powering up the modem, which is,
>unfortunately, before the block_til_ready. We could forgo this wait period
>on O_NONBLOCK (maybe mark the wait pending, and make the next operation wait
>instead). 
>Anyway: how come open returns successfully but minicom still gets the
>timeout? 

I fixed my minicom by bumping the timeout to 4 seconds:

--- minicom-1.82.orig/src/main.c	Thu Aug 27 00:54:16 1998
+++ minicom-1.82/src/main.c	Thu Oct 14 16:20:00 1999
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
   if (setjmp(albuf) == 0) {
 	portfd = -1;
 	signal(SIGALRM, get_alrm);
-	alarm(2);
+	alarm(4);
 #if defined(O_NDELAY) && defined(F_SETFL)
 	portfd = open(dial_tty, O_RDWR|O_NDELAY);
 	if (portfd >= 0){

I'll send this to the maintainer as well.

I'd like to add the patch to the existing patches in the .rpm, however I
don't know at all how RPM works and how to re-package that stuff, and I
really don't have time to read a doc today.

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