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From: raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: NetBSD problems: system hanging, com driver
Date: 29 Apr 1993 03:48:44 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Message-ID: <RAEBURN.93Apr28234844@cambridge.mit.edu>
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I've installed NetBSD on my system, and it mostly went okay.  Only a
couple serious problems so far:

* old com driver, no multiport support

Has anyone hacked CGD's driver to work under NetBSD?  Or will a spiffy
new driver be available soon?  In the meantime, I sorta have the CGD
driver working, but haven't incorporated the NetBSD changes into it.

* occasional system hangs

I don't know if this is because of the hacked com driver, because X is
usually up and therefore ddb loses.  (I haven't turned COMCONSOLE back
on yet, so it's trying to use the display.)  My system has hung three
or four times in the last week.  Has anyone else had this happen, and
gotten some real data?

Ken