Amitai Schlair wrote:
> 
> > I was not able to find the error message 'receiver ring buffer overrun'
> > anywhere in the source files, so I couldn't comment it out. (I looked
> > *everywhere* in /usr/src.) Can someone more well-versed than I help me
> > find this?
> 
> I should add that this message is coming from the ae driver. I couldn't
> grep it anywhere in the source files (unless I'm missing something). (Is
> there a way to do a recursive grep? I had to search directory by
> directory.)

Ah!  I thought that you were using an old version of the serial driver :-)

Here's the line you're looking for:

/sys/dev/ic/dp8390.c:713

For a recursive anything, I like:

find . -print | xargs grep "string"
 
> > My final task in making the machine totally headless is to redirect
> > console output to an arbitrary pty (preferably on the fly). I saw
> > something about this in the tty(4) man page, but not being a programmer
> > (yet) it didn't make much sense to me. I did leave options UCONSOLE
> > defined in my kernel config file; I just need to know how to take
> > advantage of it. Can this be done on the command line, or from a shell
> > script?
> 
> A C program would be fine too, if someone could show me what to write.
> (I don't know C yet. :)

Don't know about this one.  Sorry.

I hope this helps some.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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