#17 Serious bug in the serial driver code

[Björn Johansson]

Hi!

I've tested a lot of 2.4.x kernels and they all
suffering from a bug in the serial driver code.
With the 2.4.18 and the 2.4.20 the whole system
crashes when it tries to connect to my modem
which is on /dev/ttyS0.

With the 2.4.4 kernel I'm almost able to connect
to the internet. What happens is that the modem
starts dialing, then just when it's going to
connect, the ppp daemon dies.

I personally think this is a very serious problem,
and I'm considering buying an ADSL ethernet modem
to get rid of this problem. But MAYBE there will
be problems with this as well?