Doug Attig said in a message to All:
 DA> I have a user who started getting what looked to me like ANSI 
 DA> escape codes on her screen when she called... but some of them just
 DA> looked like garbage. 
 DA> I asked he about UART chips, and gave her the utility to check it. 
 DA> She says her computer doesn't have one, but her modem does (16550).
 DA> I've never heard of that. Wondered if anyone else has.
Doug, internal modems have the UART on board and most respectable modems 
14.4k and above shipped with a 16550 on board.
Her computer may not have a UART if the motherboard does not have any onboard 
com ports.
As for the 'garbage', that's typical of noise on the lines that wasn't 
trapped by the error-correcting in the modem. Generally this is either (1) 
the error rate has increased beyond what the EC can keep up with, or (2) the 
EC has been inadvertently turned off.
What speeds are these problems occurring at?
lawrence@eforest.houston.tx.us 
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