Subject: Re: Various weird lossage with serial console
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/21/1998 10:29:29
As Curt Sampson wrote...
> 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.

I also have a NoName with de and ncr, same experiences as cjs.

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