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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Appletalk lockups
Message-ID: <1991May17.172848.714@jhereg.osa.com>
Date: 17 May 91 17:28:48 GMT
References: <3141@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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In article <3141@krafla.rhi.hi.is> sigurasg@rhi.hi.is (Sigurdur Asgeirsson) writes:
>
>  We have an fx running A/UX 2.00 at my university, it's connected via ethernet
>to the other unix machines at campus, and via localtalk to an AppleShare server
>and an old laserwriter. In the past 4-5 weeks the appletalk interface has gone
>down at least 3 times. What happens is that all of a sudden it won't print to
>the LW or talk to the AS server, and when I try to find out what's happening 
>with appletalk -s, it aborts with the message "no more processes" or something
>to that effect. Appletalk -d does the same thing and atlookup sees nothing on
>the net. So far the only solution has been to reboot the machine.
>  Does anyone know why this happens, and how to:
>    a: prevent it from happening, or
>    b: bring the appletalk interface up w/o rebooting
>
>
>-- 
>sigurasg@rhi.hi.is  | "Well you know, C isn't that hard, void (*(*f[])())() for
>Sigurdur Asgeirsson | instance defines f as an array of unspecified size, of
>                    | pointers to functions returning a pointer to a function
>                    | returnig void... I think"

I'd be willing to bet that the Ethernet card in it is from Racal/Interlan.
We had one in here doing pretty much the same thing. I am told by
a salesman that the Farallon ethernet card has been tested with A/UX,
but I haven't personally had the pleasure yet.
-- 
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