Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:21:50 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: muir@idiom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Message-ID: <199602151421.IAA03818@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199602150007.KAA18935@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 15, 96 10:37:05 am
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> Wishlists are a Good Thing 8) Absolutely :-) > > fixed boca16 driver so that it doesn't hang once a week. (No current > > urgency -- I bought a pair of Cyclades 16e's to use until the boca > > driver is fixed) > > It appears that there's a problem with acknowledging interrupts and the > Boca cards. I don't know if Joe Greco ever got to the beottom of his > locking up... >From my discussions with other folks, it seems like there may be problems with particular combinations of BB's and MB's. What we did discover is that it is trivial to detect the condition and that the card can be reset by detaching all processes from it (i.e. flipping all the ttys entries to "off" and then back "on"). The problem occurs with very low frequency and I haven't had a chance to test anything more sophisticated, last discovery was made about two weeks ago ;-) I'm not sure that the problem I'm seeing is the same problem others are seeing, however. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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