>>>>> "thierry" == Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

thierry> Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> A while back I reported that the rocketport (rocket.o) driver in
>> mandrake 8.2/cooker (which is old) had problems with modern
>> rocketport boards. (The latest drivers work fine.  The earlier
>> driver drops characters and does other funky things.)
>> 
>> Comtrol, the manufacturer, says that it works under RedHat and SuSE,
>> but not under Mandrake because "Mandrake is not System V
>> compatible".  (Each time I requested more detail, I was told only
>> that "Mandrake is not System V compatible".  Go figure...)
>> 
>> Oddly, RedHat, SuSE, and Mandrake use exactly the same driver
>> version (1.14c), which diffs out *almost* identically.  There is one
>> typo in Mandrake's rocket_int.h. (There is an extraneous "*/" on a
>> line.)
>> 
>> I notice that as of Aug 14, this typo has been corrected.
>> 
>> Was this just house cleaning?  Or was it causing the problems?
>> 
>> I'm very curious, but not in a position to test it as the hardware
>> in question is now in a production machine.

thierry> juan ?

No idea, just checked:
- our driver and rh one is the same.
- there are not typo in roceket_int.h (at least that I can see), and
  it compiles just right without a warning.

Could someone confirm if this driver is working or not?

Thanks, Juan.

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In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

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