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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Attaching a terminal to a PC Date: 17 May 1993 14:59:13 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t8981$l3@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> References: <1993May2.025707.28213@oz.plymouth.edu> <C6tsru.FIK@kram.org> <C6v2v8.Bnt@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <C753to.78@kram.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: jammy.axion.bt.co.uk |> >In article <C6tsru.FIK@kram.org> mark@kram.org (Mark Turner) writes: |> |> :) :) :) :) Thanks very much. It did turn out to be the serial |> card. I've put the old one back in and that works a treat. I've |> got two of the old sort and two of the new sort. Both old work fine |> (twin real 16550), both new don't (twin pretend 16550 on a surface |> mount thingy). |> I had a problem with a 'pretend' 16550 (although it wasn't surface mount), it had a sticky label on it that said 'NS16550AF Compatible' and when I peeled this off, the originial chip markings had bee scratched off!! The system crashed (often with fsck removing files from /) about 80% of the time when I tried to 'c' in kermit. I've just bought a new card with two genuine 16550's on it and it's fine. The originial distributers know who they are!! (Mark, you have a connection to them!!) Lee.