Minicom is sloooooooowwww

Try to play with the BIOS .. to resolve irq conflict

if your modem set to com 3 and IRQ 5
the type in

$ setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5

do the same to reflect your modem setting

this should work ....

Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict.

Take a look with :
        cat /proc/interrupts

Regards,
jmpa @mnsinc.com
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  To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
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In comp.os.linux.networking Zbigniew M. Strzempa <M @uibk.ac.at> wrote:

perhaps an IRQ conflict

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Thomas E. Dickey
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You have an IRQ conflict. Pick a different IRQ. I guarantee you this is the
problem.

i'd try to figure out the speed settings between comm and modem device,
which means speed settings of serial port.

cheers
max

That has my vote also :-).  Had the same problem a while back and the 4
port serial card I was using was in conflict with a soundblaster.
Pulled the soundblaster (Plug-n-Pray) and all was well.
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easy as long as both are frozen" - Edward V. Berard.

I had the same problem .... I fixed it by changing my IRQ settings. Basically,
my internal modem creates a COM port which was conflicting with the address of
another port. All I had to do was simply change the conflicting port address and
*PRESTO* faster response from modem.

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Is there an IRQ conflict on your modem device?

-jason