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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!news.cccd.edu!usenet From: mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael Peer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD 0.9 stray characters on console? Date: 7 Jun 1994 16:51:14 GMT Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2t28i2$6tf@spock.dis.cccd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.3 Hello All, I have been trying on an off for about a year to get a UNIX with TCP/IP going, with little or no money down :) I was able to get the farthest with NetBSD 0.9, its runs, I can login via console and network. Nice. The question I have is I am getting stray characters on my screen, mostly % and ' characters. At times they even stay there, even though I scroll the screen. This is when I am not logged via the console. This is not a major problem, because I have another computer next to it, than I can get in via telnet, by the way on telnet, it never has any stray characters. One other side note, occasionally I get a isa stray interrupt message on the console, then after a while, it says it won't bother sending me the message. When I first started bring up the system, all I had was the console, and it worked fine, except for the stray interrupt 7's. The problem really started when I reworked ifconfig and enabled the network interface. Some information on my system: IBM CGA monitor clone CGA card Morse 386SX-16 MB with 387 and 8MB RAM Conner 540MB hard disk Floppy/IDE with I/O card Xinetron (clone) ne2000 Ethernet card with thinnet port enabled Thanks in advance if anybody has any ideas, I would be interested in using the console again. p.s. You can have a good laugh about my 386SX, but its the best I could do with no idea if I would ever be able to get a real UNIX system working, I wonder if the slow cpu is part of the problem? -- Michael Peer Internet e-mail: mpeer@cccd.edu