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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Re: Appendum to problems with AST board
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.075722.15958@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:57:22 GMT
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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:50:08 GMT
-
- When I boot up the system, the kernel properly finds the
- AST board, except it 'recognizes' them as ttys[8-11], which
- do not exist. I figured that I had to mknod them, so I tried it
- out, but it didn't seem to work. After thinking about it, over
- dinner, it struck me like lightening...it is 'half' working...I'm
- getting communications in one direction, but not the other. Is
- that possible? It is sending out /etc/issue and login prompts,
- but isn't allowing the other end to enter anything.
-
-
- Sounds like interrupts to the FourPort board aren't working right. If
- you don't have AUTO_IRQ (the automatic IRQ detection code) enabled, then
- you either need to jumper your FourPort card for IRQ 5, or you need to
- modify serial.c to use the proper IRQ for your card, or you need to use
- the setserial program to let the kernel know what IRQ the card is using.
-
- - Ted
-