From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 6 11:02:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22209 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22190 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id SAA26955; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:42:07 +0100 (BST) To: Dan Unser CC: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: kernel compiling In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 09:43:27 MDT." <199606061543.JAA01489@odabree.sd.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 18:42:07 +0100 Message-ID: <26953.834082927@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dan Unser wrote in message ID <199606061543.JAA01489@odabree.sd.net>: > I upgraded Release version 2.1 to the 2.2-960501-SNAP version and had > problems getting the kernel to compile, so I wiped out the 2.1 version > and installed the 2.2 snapshot from scratch and am still having bugs > compiling a new kernel. I get a lot of "incompatible pointer type" > messages. It makes a new kernel, but when I load it and try it out > the networking doesn't work. Pings, telnet, etc. It states something > about send to permission denied. The incompatablie pointer type messages are expected and have been cured in later versions of -current. They are totally harmless. The ``sendto: permission denied'' sounds like you have IPFW in your kernel. This is expected. You first need to alter the ipfw rule to allow packets out. See the documentation or read back in the mail list archives. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info