WY995 - help required.

[Bob Willey]

In article <1990Dec5.170207.21221 at hod.uit.no>  (Thomas Strandenaes) writes:
>I've got a somewhat strange problem lurking
>in my hardware. Recently I obtained a Wyse 995
>8-port serial adapter. It came complete with
>drivers for SCO Xenix 2.2.1 and higher. I've got
>SCO Xenix 2.2.1. I'm using a 386/33/cache with

Any reason you did not upgrade to SCO Xenix 2.3.2?  You will run into other
problems with 2.2.1 to compound things a bit.  You have a nice machine
config, but old software....

>the ports named tty5a-tty5h, I connected a terminal expecting a login prompt,
>but instead of a login prompt, I received junk-characters. And I still do.
>It looks approx. like this: "wuu}}}oo" et cetera. It looks
>like a baud/parity problem, but isn't. 

1. I assume from your notes that you have checked the terminal you are
using to setup the speed correctly.  The WY995 works at 9600 out of the
box, and you should not go past that until everything is rock solid.
Does not work well at past 9600.

2. Are you using the cables and connectors that were supplied with the
WY995?  It uses RJ45 8-wire connections and it must be right!  You cannot
get by with less connections.

3. Have you tried moving the board to a different address?  You may
have a conflict with another board in your system.  Running under DOS
with something like Manifest by QuarterDeck will allow you to look
at the items installed in the system.


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