From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 31 20: 8:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4776B37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.totallogic.com (mail3.tls.net [65.196.224.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDED43E4A for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:08:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@pixelhammer.com) Received: from redbird.pixelhammer.com (dial5-pm31-indy.tls.net [208.252.191.20]) by mail3.totallogic.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gA148SP28194 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:08:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by redbird.pixelhammer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AB76A80A; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:18:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:18:43 -0500 From: Dave Goodrich To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 4.1 to 4.5 - ppp problems Message-ID: <20021031231843.A181@pixelhammer.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20021017231020.A58328@tantra.dynsolve.net> <20021019013718.A41983@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20021020221308.A22752@tantra.dynsolve.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021020221308.A22752@tantra.dynsolve.net>; from dave@pixelhammer.com on Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:13:08PM -0500 X-OS_of_choice: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:13:08PM -0500, dave pixelhammer.com pop3 ftp wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:37:18AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:10:20PM -0500, dave pixelhammer.com pop3 ftp wrote: > > What happens if you use the 4.5 generic kernel? > > Same result > > > > Why stop at the almost a year old 4.5? 4.7 is out (as downloadable ISO > > images at least) and is looking good. Alternatively, I assume that > > 4.6.2 CDs are available now. > > Well... The Toshiba uses the Topic chipset which has had some trouble in the past. I also have a habit of waiting to avoid any "new" problems. I try to stay with a slightly older version of any OS making upgrades where security calls for it. > > I had planned though to use this laptop to follow "stable", so if I could get it logged on I'll upgrade at that time. > > > > Is your modem actually on cuaa4? The fifth serial port? What does > > "grep sio /var/run/dmesg.boot" say? > > Yes, dmesg shows the pcmcia card is inserted and correctly identified on sio4. > curiously, I rebooted today and did not have the device error! But I do have a problem now with a chat script failure when logging in to my ISP, which is incidently enough, me. This brings the entire story around to the begining which I will tell in a new thread. > > For now the problem seems to have disapeared, reason unknown. Four cold starts later cuaa4 is working. > Well I found the problem and the solution. I set the BIOS to 16bit compatible and everything is working now, in win98 and FreeBSD. Apparently when reinstalling the BIOS got reset to auto instead of 16bit mode. I still do not fully understand why it worked immediately after the installs completed. The one thing I did afterward was to insert both cards and restart into Windows and FreeBSD. That is when it quit working, until I changed the BIOS. DAve -- My other computer is your Windows machine... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message