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From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: NetBSD problems: system hanging, com driver
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raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn) writes:

>I've installed NetBSD on my system, and it mostly went okay.  Only a
>couple serious problems so far:

>* old com driver, no multiport support

>Has anyone hacked CGD's driver to work under NetBSD?  Or will a spiffy
>new driver be available soon?  In the meantime, I sorta have the CGD
>driver working, but haven't incorporated the NetBSD changes into it.

As soon as Bruce's comdriver gets in, also my multiport improvements
can be put in. This doesn't do much more then simply add cgd's stuff
into Bruces stuff.
I don't know if the NetBSD ppl. want this stuff in but I'm almost sure.
The only reason for not putting it in is because npx-0.4 is broken
on 386 systems. npx-0.5 seemed to correct it, but rgrimes posted it
had a serious bug in it. So you just will have to wait a bit more.

>* occasional system hangs

>[...]
>Ken

-Guido