Re: Serial issue

[Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>]

Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:40:05PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:36 +0100, Russell King wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:17:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>>>Are you transferring from or two the machine which is having a problem?
>>>IOW, is the problem machine doing lots of receive or lots of transmit?
>>>
>>
>>Neither uploads nor downloads work in interrupt mode.  Both work in
>>polled mode.
> 
> 
> Ho hum.  This probably requires the use of a serial splitter so that
> an independent known good machine can monitor what's being sent by
> each end.

Since you have 2 serial ports, can you test
using ttyS1 as the console (kernel boot parameter console=ttyS1)
and do a transfer on ttyS0 (interrupt mode) with a separate
connection to another machine?

This at least removes interaction with the console
from the picture.

-- 
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd.