[syslinux] Question: anyone seeing excessive lost characters on SYSLINUX over serial port?

[Baurjan Ismagulov]

Hello, Peter!

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:18:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have a user who is reporting excessive amounts of lost characters when 
> using SYSLINUX (PXELINUX actually) over a serial port at 38400 bps. 
> What is somewhat bizarre is that he has a very high quality server with 
> a Cyclades board, and yet he's losing characters in the PXELINUX->server 
> direction.  Has anyone else seen this?

I've seen such behaviour between two Linux boxes. I didn't have time to
investigate this, and used them at 19200. However, I suspect that this
behaviour was caused by disabled flow control (my cable lacked RTS/CTS,
so I didn't try enabling it).

Hope this helps,
Baurjan.