On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> I've now seen reports of several different kinds of weird lossage on the i386
> when using a serial console, from ncr driver chaos to machines which hang
> inexplicably when a 'de' card is ifconfigged up, but then begin running fine
> again as soon as they're sent anything on the console serial port.

Just as a data point, I've got two AXPpci33s, both of which run
serial console (no graphics card in them at all), one of which has
a de board, and neither of which appears to have this NCR problem.

cjs

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