In article <1992Aug26.172227.16546@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:

| I've been having problems with 16450's in my two Linux machines.  I haven't
| noticed it with my serial mouse, but my modem lines get forgotten my
| Linux.  It doesn't happen all the time, so it is unpredictable.  I will
| be connected somewhere, then all of a sudden get a little line noise and
| the serial port goes dead.  If I disconnect the phone line quick enough,
| I can sometimes drop carrier and regain my serial port.  Otherwise, it
| is dead until I reboot.  This has happened with an internal modem in both

  Does your software disable XON flow control? I've seen just wehat you
describe when XON was left enabled and line noise looked like a ^S,
shutting the output down.

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