Re: serial flow control appears broken

Lee Howard
2007-07-26T16:29:36Z

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

>Hello,
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>>This is evidenced in hardware flow control by a little LED labeled "RTS"
>>that is on the external modem. This LED lights up when pin 7 of the DB9
>>serial connection is given +12Vdc current (signalling "RTS" is on - that
>>the host can accept data). The LED goes dark when the current is
>>removed (signalling that the host cannot accept data). This "RTS" LED
>>never flickers at all, as it should, when receiving these bursts of data
>>- the LED stays lit as long as the serial cable is connected to the
>>host... and yet I will see those "input overrun" messages. Thus, it
>>seems quite clear that the Linux serial tty driver is not deasserting
>>RTS as it should in hardware flow control. (And probably the analogous
>>problem exists in software flow control, too.)
>>
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>I don't know the relevant timings for problem, but just to be sure that
>your prerequisites are correct: How did you check that the LED stays
>lit all the time? Just from looking might not be accurate. You might
>want to mesure the signal with an oscilloscope.
>

The manufacturer is using a scope to look for RTS and they're not seeing
it, either. I just use my eyes to look at the LED, but I can see the
CTS, DTR, DCD, RD, and TD lights blink, flicker, or dim... (and TD, RD,
and CTS tend to go on and off rather quickly).

All of that said... even though I don't see RTS flicker or blink or dim
when using kernel 2.2.5 (RedHat 6.0) I don't have any problems using
115200 bps DTE-DCE communication rate.

Thanks,

Lee.