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From: bcolbert@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Brad Colbert)
Subject: Dead com0 in NetBSD
Message-ID: <CHA4G0.A4q@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>
Organization: Radford University
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 00:38:22 GMT
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   My com0 is dead!  I have tip correctly configured, I can tip com0 and
   I can watch the lights on my modem blink, I can even dial out, but
   tip doesnt display anything (the modem does have verbose and echo on).
   When I try to quit tip (~.) it doesnt return me to my shell, it just 
   sits there in la-la land, I can type and it shows up on the screen but
   no cammands are executed and nothing is sent to the modem (after trying
   to quit).  On a soft-reboot I selected MS-DOS as the os and tried one
   of my communication programs and th same thing happend.  Not till I did
   a hard-boot did I get moy com port back in DOS.

   I have 4 com ports all configured in the standard way (ie IRQs and MEM).

   Another problem (if thats what it is), I keep getting a message from
   the wd driver...

   (looks something like the following)

   wdc0:  Extra interupt (or something like that)

   Please HELP!  My com ports worked under 386BSD, I dont want to have to start
   all over!

   Thanks

   Brad C.
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