On Saturday 06 September 2003 15:38, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 16:08:52 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:32:16PM +0800, Michael Frank wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 07:52, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Besides it just stopping without obvious reason: 
> > > 
> > > 1) It does not like when something is typed on cu and not received by the serial 
> > > port side 
> > >    connected to PL2303 (CTS low). It tends to hang and the trouble starts....
> > > 
> > > Sep  3 12:52:15 mhfl2 kernel: ttyUSB0: 1 input overrun(s)
> > > Sep  3 12:54:30 mhfl2 last message repeated 2 times
> > 
> > Hm, what is causing this?
> > That is probably why cu is getting confused, right?
> 
> I've seen the input overrun message also (with the vanilla driver, not
> patched).
> It's effect is that the first bytes (maybe up to 100..300
> bytes) are scrambled. It's like accessing a serial link with a horribly
> wrong baud rate.

I have seen that too, but rarely. Most the time it hangs after the first
few hundred bytes.

> 
> After a split-second, however, everything is okay and I start receiving
> valid NMEA data from my GPS receiver. For me, that's not much of a
> problem because nmea is checksum'ed and the bad bytes are ignored...
> 

I have used PL2303 so far to grab serial console messages and did not
get in synch with cu after the overrun popped up.

Regards
Michael



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