smart serial port boards (Arnet)
Wolf Kozel
wlk at raider.MFEE.TN.US
Fri Dec 15 07:44:12 AEST 1989
Greetings!
There is a problem with the Arnet Smartport and Telebit
modems. It has to do with the Smartport buffering data in
its 64K buffer and sending it out to the Telebit in a chunk.
The Telebit modem gets confused. With non-intelligent Multiport,
there is no problem.
This does seem to be an industry-wide problem (from other postings
I've seen). Intelligent cards have a problem with Telebit but
non-intelligent cards work fine. We haven't been able to get any
help from Telebit. We are on the verge of putting them on our non-
compatibility list. It has been very frustrating for our support
people. When I ask them, "what do you have to do to get a
Telebit modem to work?" they say, "Well, you take a monkey paw
and a rabbit's foot and ....". If you have a Smartport and Telebit
modems, I'd recommend calling us anyway. If this is a big problem,
you can trade you Smartport for a Multiport temporarily.
If you are having problems with our Smartport and regular modems,
give us a call (or reply to me via e-mail), and we'll send you the
most recent version of our driver. There is no problem with modems
and our board working -- but the most recent 5.1.12 Xenix driver
eliminates some strange modem disconnect but modem doesn't recycle
problems.
Wolf Kozel ( Arnet )
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