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Hi,

Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 1997, Robert J. Brown wrote:
> > I think the problem is cabling. The modem transfers RTS-CTS to
> > protocol and regenerates it at the other end, so the modem cable must
> > be correct, but the local cable sounds like it is not honoring the
> > hardware flow control lines.
> 
> No, it is not the cable. The onboard serial I/O of the ASUS
> P55TP4N was somehow buggy ! I just built-in a new serial
> card with an original 16C550 AF UART, and now it works perfectly.

Fine. Lets consider this case closed :-) -- but I have learned something
new: never trust ASUS mainboards (I had major problems with their onboard
serial chip on an old SP3, but I thought they have fixed it by now)

gert


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