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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!satishc
- From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
- Subject: Re: 16550A
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.021142.22928@microsoft.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 02:11:42 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <66623@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In article <66623@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
- > Does anyone else have problems with Linux not correctly "shutting down"
- > the 16550? Ever since the kernel has supported a 16550, I have had to
- > hard reset the computer after running linux, or it seems that the
- > computer "forgets" that the port that contains the 16550, exists. When I
- > soft reboot from linux (after doing a shutdown), the CMOS screen shows
- > one less serial port (in my case, None), and programs such as OS/2
- > refuse to install the COM drivers because they don't see the serial
- > port. (I have no term program running under Linux at the time)
-
- I have always had this problem. I usually just hard reboot if I need
- to use the modem again. Would be nice if this could be fixed.
-
- > Rob Coleman ][ gt0449a@prism.gatech.edu ][ "I think I'm going bald!"
- > Comp. Sci. ][ Georgia Institute of Technology ][ -Rush/COS
-
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- Satish K. Chittamuru satishc@microsoft.com
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