Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:23:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: WonderPup <WonderPup@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing serial ports crashing free-bsd Message-ID: <19991001092346.C496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990930124817.4298.rocketmail@web2906.mail.yahoo.com>; from WonderPup on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:48:17AM -0700 References: <19990930124817.4298.rocketmail@web2906.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 5:48:17 -0700, WonderPup wrote: > Hi people, > > Here's a weird one - whenever I try to access my serial ports with ppp > (ie, open up ppp, try to do a term, or get it to dial with ppp -auto) > it crashes my entire machine. Everything locks up completely, and > forever (well, I left it an hour...) > > Can't change vty, won't catch a three finger salute, nothing. > > I've mucked around with rc.serial (looks OK). Only thing is when it > boots it tells me si0 is an 8250, when I know for a fact it is a 16550A > (at least), though I have set the speed down to 2400 in ppp.conf and > that doesn't seem to change matters. (It's an external modem - a USR > V.90). > > Any and all clues will be gratefully recieved! Strange. Let's see your dmesg. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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