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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] 16550 Not Resetting.
Date: 9 Dec 1992 15:01:40 GMT
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References: <1992Nov28.032555.20511@gagetalker.com> <CGD.92Nov27220347@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <BywGD5.K5x@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
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In article <BywGD5.K5x@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
(Christoph Badura) writes:
>
> An alternative approach would be to adopt a per-driver halt routine,
> that is called during a shutdown(2) system call.

I think this is the best solution.  I am rather tired of having to
power-cycle my machine (rather hard to do remotely, too) to get the
Ethernet driver working again.

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