Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 17:34:42 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: R.Inder@ed.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Re: Upgraded to oblivion Message-ID: <19991001173442.A55033@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <2399.199910011502@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <2399.199910011502@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:02:54PM +0100, R.Inder@ed.ac.uk wrote:
>
> I have recently upgraded a working i4b installation with the latest
> version, and now it doesn't work at all!
>
> I am running FreeBSD 3.2 on a PC which has an ELSA 1000pro PCI graphics
I assume an ISDN card ;-)
> card. My phone line has British Telecom's "Home Highway" box.
>
> In the beginning, I configured the kernel and set up the version
> of i4b that came with the OS. It worked OK: it would dial on demand,
> connect to Freeserve and authenticate all in the twinkling of an eye.
>
> Thanks and contratulations all round.
>
> EXCEPT....
> a) the machine would not boot if the ISDN line was actually
> plugged in the wall at boot time. It would detect the card OK,
> but then hang, apparently indefinitely, at the point where it
> attempts to attach things to the ISDN devices. If the line
> is not plugged in, it would boot OK.
This is a problem, that has been fixed in i4b-0.83.
> b) it wouldn't hang up!
>
> I'm confident the hangup problem related to my configuration file.
> But I decided not to worry about that until I had tried the latest
> version of i4b to see whether it would fix the boot problem.
>
> So I
> - fetched i4b-00.83.00-beta-300799.tar.gz and unpacked it
> - looked at the FreeBSD INSTALLATION file
> - ran "sh overinstall.sh"
>
> - built a new kernel, installed it and re-booted.
> I did not change the kernel configuration file, since it was
> all working happily, right?
>
> Something complained about a mismatch between the kernel and the
> daemon. Checking dates showed me that "overinstall.sh" hadn't
> actually installed anything at all.
>
To check it, just look if e.g. /usr/src/sys/net/if_sppp.h is a symbloc link
into your i4b directory, e.g. /usr/local/src/i4b/FreeBSD/../sppp/if_sppp.h
> So I went to the directory where I had unpacked the tar file, and
> ran
> make depend
> make
> make install
> Everything went through smoothly: no errors or complaints, and a shiny
> new /sbin/isdnd.
>
Also, you can use the old kernel-config-file, but do
# config -r <YOUR-CONFIG>
before doing
# cd /sys/compile/YOUR-CONFIG; make depend; make; make install
> Then, I re-booted the machine. Oh dear....
>
> With the new configuration, /var/log/messages gets filled up with messages
> (a batch of half a dozen or so added every second) from /kernel trying to
> start up a link, and then reporting that it is closing down.
>
> ifconfig reports the link being "up" and "running", but it doesn't connect
> effectively --- I'm not sure whether it tries to phone up at all, or is
> trying once per second. ((To guard against the possiblity that it is
> succeeding once per second, I unplugged the line: no change....))
>
> Trying to track down the problem, I stepped through the script I used
> in setting up the original version --- essentially, the one in section
> 9.2 of "care and feeding...". The ifconfig down was fine, but
>
> spppcontrol isp0 myauthproto=pap
>
> failed with an error message about a bad parameter: something like
> SIOCGIFGENERIC(SPPPIOGDEFS).
>
> If the details of any particular error message would help, I could get
> them.
>
> But I'm mostly baffled that starting from a bog standard FreeBSD
> installation with a 95% working system, running the recommended isntall
> script and performing the various "makes" without problem has left me with
> a system that is completely broken.
>
Maybe i4b is broken, but nor the complete system, right?
> Assuming that i4b-00.83.00-beta-300799.tar.gz works at all, what could
> have gone wrong? What do I do next?
>
See above.
i4b-00.83 and 3.2-R works with your card (I tested it ;-)
> Robert.
>
Regards
Udo
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