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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!news.tamu.edu!news.utdallas.edu!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!news From: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus Subject: Re: Problem with com ports on ASUS P55T2P4 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:22:37 -0500 Organization: Nortel Technology (formerly Bell Northern Research) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <327E346D.656C@nortel.ca> References: <5513ro$2i8@bpeters.uucp> <558fep$18l@adv.IAEhv.nl> <327ce91f.5601052@news.earthlink.net> <JOHN.96Nov4100917@burdell.ece.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerh278.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30631 alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:27466 John Galbraith wrote: > > Is the patch associated with this thread going to be incorporated into > future releases of FreeBSD, or is it just a hack that works around the > problem that nobody except us poor slobs with a P55T2P4 would want? > Are we going to have to apply a patch like this every time a new > kernel comes out? If so, I will be sure to hang on to this patch! > > John I second that question! I just bought a T2P4, and haven't even taken it out of the shrink wrapping yet. I currently have a P55TP4XE which I'm quite happy with and I *know* doesn't suffer from this problem. Should I punt my T2P4 back from whence it came? Any/all advise appreciated, Cheers, Andrew. ( opinions are mine, not Nortel's ).