Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Linux-2.0.25 and 2.1.8 | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:00:27 +0100 | From | Alain Knaff <> |
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>Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: >> >> The 2.1.8 release is more "interesting", and the big thing here is the >> new IPv6 code together with quite a number of cleanups for IPv4 (TCP >> retransmissions are really done by TCP, not by the IP layer like they >> used to be done). Thanks to Pedro for all the work on this. > >It blew up ppp for me. It seems the strings returned from the chat >script were garbled, resulting in ppp not knowing it was connected. >Going back to 2.1.6 cured the problem without making any changes to the >ppp binary or config files. Here is an exerpt of an NORMAL, successful >ppp connect under 2.1.6:
Starting from 2.1.8, I noticed a similar problem. It went away after doing setserial /dev/modem uart 16550 . For some reason, the default, 16450, seems to no longer work with more powerful uart's.
Regards,
Alain
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