Date: Sat, 30 Dec 95 23:23:09 +1000 From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.0 PPP hassles... Message-ID: <30e53d3f.bullseye@bullseye.apana.org.au>
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G'day folks...
I have successfully installed 2.1.0-RELEASE via PPP onto a machine speced
as follows:
486DX2-66, VLB, UMC chipset, 8MB RAM
v.34 modem on cuaa0 (16550)
Adaptec 2840 + Quantum Capella 2.2GB drive
EGA card w/HGC emulation driving mono monitor
I have recompiled the kernel to get rid of unwanted drivers etc.
Apart from line dropouts during the install, things generally went pretty
well during the process. BTW, one small gremlin (which may have been a
side-effect of the several times interupted install):- after the install
/etc/services was found to have only a handfull of entries :-(. I
copied the version from my 2.0.5-SNAP-950726 system to get around that....
However I've run into several problems with the user process PPP :-(
1. The dial chat script behaviour appears to have changed, seemingly
requiring a terminating send string, whereas all the samples and the
working config from the above mentioned SNAP-950726 system don't
have/need it. I've used the string "\\c" to fill this for now.
2. Using the dial command, after the connect has been made, but before the
login has been executed, PPP core dumps with an "illegal instruction" error.
Upon restarting PPP, with the modem link still up, I can use "term" and
manually log in.
3. Using a manual login, after PPP reports "Packet mode.", it then
reports "SIOCAIFADDR: File exists" netstat -r shows that the link is
in place, but as far as the rest of the systems is concerned, the link is
down.
I've tried copying the PPP executable from the SNAP-950726 system but this
hasn't had any effect on problems 2 or 3 (haven't checked #1).
I can't see anything in ppp.log to give me any clues and the error message
in #3 isn't helpfull...
Any suggestions as to actions/information which might help me identify
what's going on here would be much appreciated!
TIA
PS. At the moment I'm not hooked into the mailing lists :-(
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