From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 15 06:23:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA01745 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 06:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA01740 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 06:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id IAA03818; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:21:50 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199602151421.IAA03818@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:21:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: muir@idiom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602150007.KAA18935@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 15, 96 10:37:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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