karl@naitc.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) (10/21/90)
HELP! We're trying to get a few PS/2s running with the packet drivers, and are having no luck at all. All we get is a "Timed out initializing board" message...... and no function! If anyone out there has this working, PLEASE let me know immediately. Email appreciated with hints, tricks, traps, and new code if we need something other than what we have. The drivers we have are dated mid-august of this year. We really need this working Monday AM! Thanks MUCH in advance! -- Karl Denninger AC Nielsen kdenning@ksun.naitc.com (708) 317-3285 Disclaimer: Contents represent opinions of the author; I do not speak for AC Nielsen on Usenet.
jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) (10/21/90)
karl@naitc.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) writes: >HELP! >We're trying to get a few PS/2s running with the packet drivers, and are >having no luck at all. All we get is a "Timed out initializing board" >message...... and no function! I had the same problem last year. I stumbled onto a work-around that you probably won't like. :-) I found that if an old beta version of the driver was loaded, the machine warm booted and then the new version loaded, everything worked OK. Great, eh? One must assume that some memory location is getting twiddled by one or the other but I never had time to run this one down. If you find out what it takes to make the new ones work, I'd appreciate hearing. Since terminal emulation is about all a PS/2 is good for, I expect to run into a couple more someday. John -- John De Armond, WD4OQC | "The truly ignorant in our society are those people Radiation Systems, Inc. | who would throw away the parts of the Constitution Atlanta, Ga | they find inconvenient." -me Defend the 2nd {emory,uunet}!rsiatl!jgd| with the same fervor as you do the 1st.
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (10/22/90)
In article <1990Oct21.051918.5813@naitc.naitc.com> karl@naitc.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
We're trying to get a few PS/2s running with the packet drivers, and are
having no luck at all. All we get is a "Timed out initializing board"
message...... and no function!
The trick is to fetch sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/packet-drivers/3c523.com
(in binary mode, of course). I just got it working in the past week.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman DysonPIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Andr'e PIRARD) (10/22/90)
On Sun, 21 Oct 90 08:11:55 GMT <tcp-ip-relay@NIC.DDN.MIL> said: >karl@naitc.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) writes: >>We're trying to get a few PS/2s running with the packet drivers, and are >>having no luck at all. All we get is a "Timed out initializing board" >>message...... and no function! > >I had the same problem last year. I stumbled onto a work-around that >you probably won't like. :-) I found that if an old beta version of >the driver was loaded, the machine warm booted and then the new version >loaded, everything worked OK. Great, eh? Indeed 3c523_5 looks to have been included in release 7 for that purpose. But one doesn't need to warm boot. TERMIN will do the trick. >One must assume that some memory location is getting twiddled by one >or the other but I never had time to run this one down. If you find >out what it takes to make the new ones work, I'd appreciate hearing. >Since terminal emulation is about all a PS/2 is good for, I expect >to run into a couple more someday. I have traced the problem some day to occur during board RAM tests. I have suggested that the cause is that the CPU can't accessed that RAM until the chip is initialized, what's apparently done after RAM test. Unfortunately, I haven't got a 523 any more. Will someone who has one give Russ a help? Andr'e PIRARD SEGI, Univ. de Li`ege B26 - Sart Tilman B-4000 Li`ege 1 (Belgium) pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be or PIRARD@BLIULG11 on EARN/BITNET