Re: bad /dev/cuaa1??

2000-08-19 Thread Greg Work

Stupid question, but have you tried remaking the device node?

G.
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Subject: bad /dev/cuaa1??


>
> This is rather bizarre.  I have two virtually identical USR modems;
> I also have vitually identical ppp and tip and cu setup--I just
> copied over tarballs from this system to sage.thought.org.
>
> According to ppp:
>
>   Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor
>
> tip and cu (cu -pport1 dir) indicate that something is amiss with
> /dev/cuaa1.  The LED's are on my older modem are not what they
> were some months ago.  If I remember correctly the switches in
> back were fine so I shouldn't have to change anything.
>
> Can anybody figure out how to get this second link working?
>
> thanks much,
>
> gary
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Re: AMD K6-2 / 550

2000-07-03 Thread Greg Work

> I don't know if this applies but I have a k6-2 400mhz that was getting
> signal 11's frequently during compiling or cpu extensive functions. And
> simply adding heat sink compound between cpu and fan solved it.
>
> Dave


That easy huh??

hmm...i may have to see if i can scam some thermal grease.

(i will bury my head in the sand for a while if this turns out to be the
solution :)  - im currently using the frag tape that came attached to the
bottom of the heatsink )

G.



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Re: AMD K6-2 / 550

2000-07-03 Thread Greg Work

Hey Steve...

do you mean loader as in BootEasy  (or whatever it is called) or just prior
to the "twirling baton" stage?

if the latter - how can you bypass it?

Cheers

G.

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> Hi,
>
> A possibility (only). I have two AMD K6-2 boxes currently both of
which
> work fine. BUT on one of them if I use the loader then I get crashes,
> unrecoverable disc errors and all sorts of nasty things. Booting straight
into
> the kernel is fine, I can run forever under heavy load. On the other
machine I
> have no problems at all with or without loader.
>
> See if not using the loader makes any difference, if so there may
be
> something trackable.
>
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Re: AMD K6-2 / 550

2000-07-01 Thread Greg Work

> > Just a quick question - *exactly* what was the symptoms of your problem?
> >
> > ive just turned a K6-2 300 into a BSD box, and make world fails with
> > SIG's 10, 11 and 12 randomly.  I know its not the memory - i have
> > been thrashing that memory for 12 mths now - never skipped a beat.
>
> You mean it never discovered a problem?  What software were you
> running?

Was running win98 - and used to dual boot 3.0 --> 3.2-STABLE with 98

It got retired to a straight win98 box (ducks objects thrown at him) when i
got a second machine

>
> > The CPU / Motherboard / Memory used to run BSD in the 2.2.8 - 3.2
> > days no problems.  Now - no luck :( - i get random panics, SIG 10's
> > to 12's and core dumps - unfortunately - i have no idea how to debug
> > them :(
>
> If they're hardware related, there's probably not much to see except
> that things will be different each time.
>
> I suspect that a large number of crashes on Microsoft machines are in
> fact due to flaky hardware.  Despite my low opinion of Microsoft, I
> have not had an unexpected crash of a Microsoft system in years (it
> helps, of course, if you don't use them much :-).

the funny thing was that it never skipped a beat under M$ after a bios flash
(it didnt like my vid card - but thats another issue :)  )

/me is intregued

G.



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Buildworld Error in termcap - 3.4-STABLE

2000-06-11 Thread Greg Work

Hi guys...seems im getting a problem compiling 3.4-STABLE branch

CVSup'ed as at approx 10pm Australian CST

ive attempted to compile termcap by hand - no good though

Unfortunately - im a little new at this game..so i dont know where is the
best place to head to try and hack this out - any RTFM pointers welcome :)

===> share/termcap
ex - /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src < /usr/src/share/termcap/reorder >
/dev/null
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
root@the-toaster>

Any ideas?

G.

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