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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:04:26 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: V8.x-PRE2 Serious PUC problem - Heads Up!
Message-ID:  <200911191404.nAJE4HEm095790@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4B054F6D.70300@denninger.net>
References:  <4B054DCC.6020701@denninger.net> <200911191357.nAJDvd3X095748@lava.sentex.ca> <4B054F6D.70300@denninger.net>

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At 09:00 AM 11/19/2009, Karl Denninger wrote:
>Well ok then the uart driver is BROKEN.
>
>It simply locks up on the port after some period of time, returning
>nothing.  I have found no way to reset the port other than a reboot
>either.  That's a "surprise" that people running fax servers and other
>similar things are going to be very unhappy about.

Which serial card are you using ? I have a number of PCI cards (lava 
for example) that are working quite well with the puc and uart driver 
combo. Perhaps you could post some details about the hardware used 
thats having issues.

         ---Mike




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