From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 15 03:54:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA25317 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 03:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA25310 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 03:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id LAA17299; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:50:15 +0100 Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:46:04 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:46:23 +0100 To: Andrew Stesin , Joerg Wunsch From: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Subject: Re: Direct UUCP stopped working but UUCP via PPP still works Cc: FreeBSD hackers , devet@adv.IAEhv.nl Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:23 pm 15/10/96, Andrew Stesin wrote: [...] > I also suggest to be _very_ suspicious with Winbond integrated > chips (they are often met on VLB MIO cards and on not-so-recent > 486 motherboards). I don't have one handy for exact chip model > reference, sorry; but AFAIK ASUS SP3G motherboard is, > for example, equipped with one. I second that. I've had problems with Winbond chips bearing various numbers, they turn up on straight ISA MIO cards and 2-port serial cards too; they are A Pain In The Ass (TM). -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK