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Date: Wed,  5 Apr 2006 17:36:09 -0600
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ppp going
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Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> The hardware is a lippert frontrunner with phoenix bios (not for long!
> Everytime I use a fuctory BIOS I remember why I hate them so much) and
> it is really glitchy. I think linuxbios will fix this, but right now I
> can't reliably boot the node -- it comes up and the keyboard controller
> or something is glitching so badly that 9load thinks I'm typing lots of
> garbage -- I can't type garbage that fast even when I CAN reach the
> keyboard!

oops, can't blame fuctory BIOS for this one. 9load was trying to use
serial console and keyboard --- and modem was sending back lots of
garbage in response to 9load's prompts.

Gotta tell 9load not to user serial console :-)

ron