From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 26 11:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from calis.blacksun.org (calis.blacksun.org [168.100.186.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89ECC37BF72 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:19:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8114876; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:25:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD2249F4; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:25:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:25:40 -0500 (EST) From: Don To: "D.A. Muran-de Assereto" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random lockups with 4.0 and serial IO In-Reply-To: <002c01bf9757$5c878f00$0101a8c0@tuad.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > PC164/433, latest SRM runs fine as long as I do not try to use it for serial > IO, namely multilink PPP via sio1 & 2. > As soon as I do, the machine WILL freeze completely in a random (short) > amount of of time. I was under the impression that the Alphas used one of the serial ports for internal housekeeping or something and that you couldn't use it for ppp. I haven't seen a message that says otherwise or that says that this was fixed, but I have not been keeping up the way I should. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message