From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 16:55: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3544A14D4A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA24323; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:23:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:23:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: WonderPup Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing serial ports crashing free-bsd Message-ID: <19991001092346.C496@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990930124817.4298.rocketmail@web2906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990930124817.4298.rocketmail@web2906.mail.yahoo.com>; from WonderPup on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:48:17AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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