We were using the 1.6 version of the realport driver on a Dell SMP server. When we boot up using the SMP kernel on Red Hat AS 2.1 everything was fine until multiple users start logging in and using the dumb terminals attached to the Red Hat machine via the digi. Shortly after the users logged in and started to input data, the system would freeze. If no users are on the terminals or just one (myself seeing how it works), the system would be fine. I was told that there was an issue with that driver when running SMP. So, I contacted digi and they confirmed and gave me an updated driver that contains the fix - ver 1.7. I haven't yet to confirm that the bug is indeed fixed. The Dell server is a two way, but turns out it only has one cpu. We shouldn't have been running the SMP kernel to begin with. Nevertheless the bug was real and digi admitted to it. We will be testing very soon with a borrowed machine. I plan to do a mock conversion one night by patching in the digi cables where there are currently annex termserver cables, go to each terminal in the place and run a paragraph that loops the display of a file non stop on every terminal in the place. I will then have people log in on some PC's and do some keypunching etc... This should be a good test to see how stable everything is (as far as the digi operation goes). I will probably let the 'loops' run all night and come in early in the am to see if this haven't locked up. Im not sure if your hardware runs the realport driver or not. However, its something to watch out for. Anthony
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Ballinger Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse on Linux Could you elaborate, or contact me off-list, re: RH SMP kernel problems with digi driver? I am upgrading a site that uses Digi etherlite devices and the realport driver. The new server is a hyper-threaded P4, which RH9 sees as two CPUs, and thus uses the SMP kernel by default. Thanks, Scott Ballinger Pareto Corporation Edmonds WA USA 206-713-6006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Dzikiewicz Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:52 AM [snip] We are still messing with digi portservers. It turned out that there was a bug in the driver that prevented it from working with the SMP kernel. [snip] ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
