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From: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: General problems (serial line, spontaneous reboots) (fix)
Date: 21 Jul 1992 15:19:01 -0700
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
Lines: 33
Message-ID: <14i2glINN1gc@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1992Jul21.025130.15471@ponds.uucp> <1992Jul21.030339.15654@ponds.uucp>
NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu
Keywords: 386bsd serial COM
In article <1992Jul21.030339.15654@ponds.uucp> rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) writes:
>I have just discovered that replacing the COM driver with the
>bidirectional one from Chris (cgd@agate.berkely.edu) solved the
>problems I was having with screen over a serial line.
<sigh> well, i guess i'm going to have to hack harder on the 0.1 serial
driver... there'll be a 'beta' com driver out in a day or two...
> [stuff about smaller kernel being larger...]
>
>Now, that driver isn't *too* different from the older one, and certainly
>without the 3 ethernet drivers, the kernel should be smaller. But,
>my new kernel is *MUCH* larger.
(I had to be "Mr. Shoehorn" to get the unoffical dist floppies i put
up the other day to work, and this was one of the things i had to figger
out...)
the kernel, as distributed, it "strip"ped... this is generally a bad
thing, but for a application like that (where nothing wants its symbol
table or name list) it's ok...
also of note, the floppy filesystems were created with:
newfs -c 32 -i 32768 /dev/rfd0a 5in
<sigh> nothing like tweaking filesystem params to get more space... 8-)
Chris
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Chris G. Demetriou
cgd@berkeley.edu
I'm not from the computer center, and I'm *NOT* here to help *YOU*!