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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.dsndata.com!backbone!crcnews.unl.edu!news.mid.net!news.dakota.net!news From: erich@jake.lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Digiboard 8e Question Date: 31 May 1996 13:55:15 GMT Organization: Dakota Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4omto3$i1s@server2.dakota.net> References: <Ds94yr.J4q.E.fourthgen@fourthgen.fourthgen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bacall.lodgenet.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <Ds94yr.J4q.E.fourthgen@fourthgen.fourthgen.com>, tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com (Tom Greenwalt) writes: >I have a Digiboard PC/8e installed and users complain of weird terminal >activity occasionally happening. One common symptom is a run away prompt, >like the <Enter> is being held down. Other complaints of sporatic >screen redraws, line drops etc are common. I have four standard serial >ports plus this Digiboard and there are no complaints if the users dial in >on the other regular serial lines. There are also complaints about general >performance. File transfers are slower etc. The phone company assures me >that lines are all clean (which I take with a grain of salt). >Has anyone else noticed these sort of problems? Do I not have something >setup properly or does this sound like a hardware conflict? sounds like you've got an old digi driver... you might what to try the dgb.c and friends from -stable or -current. (they're probably the same) I had similar problems before the last round of bug fixes. There's also an even newer set of patches from somewhere (check the -hardware mail archives at freefall), but I hear the it doesn't work with multiple cards (maybe not a problem for you). > >-- >Tom Greenwalt (Tom-Too) (F.O.E.) tomg@fourthgen.com >7300 Nicollet Ave. S. mishima@winternet.com >Richfield, MN 55423-3121 tomg@mishima.mn.org >* In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness. * eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com