My serial connections are losing charactersFirst, check the NCLIST kernel parameter. This governs how many CLIST structures are allocated; these are used to buffer input and output. If this is too low, then at times of high serial I/O demands, your system will run out of CLIST structures and start discarding characters. Note that there is a limit as to how many CLIST structures may be allocated to an individual process, regardless of how many are available systemwide. This is done to prevent one misbehaving program from monopolizing all of the CLIST structures. Look for the tunable parameter TTHOG (only available in newer Unix systems), which controls this limit.
Serial Printer I wonder if anyone can help with an issue we are having trying to setup a printer on a new Unix server box via Serial Printing. Details as follows:
Digiboard Serial Ports on Linux ServersRecently I have been working on a RedHat server installing all manner of stuff including serial ports. This customer has an 56K DDS line under contract for a few more years so we went with a Digi C/X controller to match what was in their SCO server. When I asked Digi tech support about a couple of things that weren't clear they suggested that I forget the the software and epca drivers that came with the controller and instead download and install their dgap drivers which comes with their familiar mpi software for configuring the board