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From: Tim Howling <tdh@interads.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: keystrokes make comms work?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:14:25 GMT
Organization: Interactive Advertising Ltd.
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I have installed the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.0 software on my P90, 32 MB
ram, 1 Gig EIDE disk, NE2000 compatible card PC.
I could not get the ethernet to work then while I had ping running I
leant on the keyboard and I started to get a response. Stop touching the
keyboard and the coms stops. I remember something like this from my DOS
work. Doesn't the keyboard use the A20 line somewhere and can't this
cause problems in >16Mb memory systems?
Anyone got any experience like this or even better the answer?
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