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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:34:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Thamer Al-Herbish <shadows@whitefang.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Multi Port Serial driver flaky?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970803162900.459E-100000@whatever.kuwait.net>

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Hi,

We've recently been using a Digiboard PC/8 (completely dum 8 port board with
16450 and 16550 mixed), under FreeBSD 2.2.1

It seems to be functioning fine, we're using it to dail out with pppd and
most of the time it does its job. Unfortunaetly at times we get very wierd
behaviour, where the pppd process hangs up and cannot be killed without a
SIGKILL sent to it (wont respond to SIGTERM and do it cleanly).

We've also had it bomb out on us totaly at times, where nothing but a reboot
fixes it. In bomb out, I mean all the ports just die.

The kernel has'nt been griping about anything except a few overflows not
many, just a few every week. Here's a sample:

Jul 29 03:26:30 java /kernel: sio10: 10 more interrupt-level buffer
overflows (total 2028)

Has anyone out there experienced similar problems using a digiboard? I'm
just wondering if the driver is known to be buggy, or I should start looking
somewhere else for the problem.

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Thamer Al-Herbish                                      tmh@kuwait.net
UNIX Programmer                         Gulfnet Kuwait Floor 11, Al-Gas Tower.
Network Analyst                         Ahmad Al-Jabar St. Sharq, Kuwait.
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