v2.2.1 and serial fixes

v2.2.1 and serial fixes

[Brian C Burke]

Over the last few weeks I seen reference to BenH fixing some serial driver
bugs that may be involved in ppp hangs. I grapped the 2.2.1 kernel in hopes
that these fixes were incorporated. Unfortunatelly ppp connections are
still problematic, though I'm seeing no other problems. The lack of
reliable net connections is all that keeps me from fully moving to
linuxppc.  Were the serial fixes incorporated in 2.2 or do I need to get
the latest sources?

Brian

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v2.2.1 and serial fixes

[Brian C Burke]

I posted this over the weekend but got no response so I'll try again.

Over the last few weeks I seen reference to BenH fixing some serial driver
bugs that may be involved in ppp hangs. I grapped the 2.2.1 kernel in hopes
that these fixes were incorporated. Unfortunatelly I'm still finding ppp
connections often hang and the only fix is to reboot. If I boot into
mklinux ppp is stone reliable, so the problem is in linuxppc  Were the
serial fixes incorporated in 2.2 or do I need to get the latest sources?

Brian

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Re: v2.2.1 and serial fixes

[BenH]

On Wed, Feb 10, 1999, Brian C Burke <bcburke@socrates.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>Over the last few weeks I seen reference to BenH fixing some serial driver
>bugs that may be involved in ppp hangs. I grapped the 2.2.1 kernel in hopes
>that these fixes were incorporated. Unfortunatelly I'm still finding ppp
>connections often hang and the only fix is to reboot. If I boot into
>mklinux ppp is stone reliable, so the problem is in linuxppc  Were the
>serial fixes incorporated in 2.2 or do I need to get the latest sources?

I'm not 100% sure I have have fixed _all_ the problems, but PPP works
reliably for me using the internal modem of the PowerBook. The fixes are
currently in vger or in Paul's kernel. I beleive the binary snapshot on
samba.anu.edu.au do have them. Are you using a kernel.org kernel distrib
? This one may lack the latest PPC patches.
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