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From: englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart)
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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
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In-Reply-To: <199508161909.EAA29583@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Thu, 17 Aug 1995 04:39:30 +0930 (CST))
Subject: Re: file transfer over serial port locks up pc
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>>>>> "MS" == Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> writes:

MS> Matt Englehart stands accused of saying:
>> 
>> Hello, I'm running the April snapshot of 2.0 on a pc that is hooked up to a
>> network with the 3com 509b board.  When I attempt to do a file transfer
>> over the serial port, the machine hangs.  
>> It seems as though things have gotten worse now that I've added the
>> ethernet interface.  It used to rarely hang.  Now it does within an instant
>> of attempting file transfer.
>> I'm thinking of trying out 2.0.5R.  Do you have enough of a clue as to what
>> the problem might be to say that it might be eliminated in 2.0.5R?

MS> That depends on whether you fix your hardware problems first.  I suspect
MS> that you have a configuration problem; more explicitly, I suspect that
MS> you have your ethernet controller on the same IRQ as one of your serial
MS> ports.

sigh.... I wish:

> dmesg
...
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
...
ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa
ep0: aui/bnc/utp[*BNC*] address 00:20:af:74:67:6e irq 10

Thanks for the effort, though :-)

Matt