On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Scott A. Conway wrote:
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > Which model of Couriers should I use? Will I get better performance to
> > use the same firmware revisions on both ends? Shall I use 25Mhz or 20Mhz
> > models?
>
> Well, I don't imagine that there will be much difference except for the
> generality that external modems tend to be a bit quicker than the
> equivalent internal counterpart by the same company. What you generally
> get is more features when you buy more expensive modems, and USR
> Couriers have an excellent reputation. I do, however, suggest using
> something to reassign your systems IRQ priorities to give your serial
> transfers precedence to minimize stalls due to the other hardware
> hogging the CPU. I have just such a utility called "irqtune." If you
> would like to have it, just e-mail me, and I will send it along. Just
> make sure that you read the README file so that you will know how to
> install and configure it.
I have a RH 5.2 with kernel 2.2.13. IRQTUNE doesn't work on my system. It
used to until I upgraded the kernel. Is there a new one?
http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/ only have the old one when I last
checked about 3 days back.
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Richard KHOO Guan Chen
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