From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 13:03:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6248716A4C6; Mon, 22 May 2006 13:03:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spadge@fromley.net) Received: from queue03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (queue03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3887443D69; Mon, 22 May 2006 13:03:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spadge@fromley.net) Received: from aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060522124350.XDFQ29040.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Mon, 22 May 2006 13:43:50 +0100 Received: from tobermory.home ([86.0.166.167]) by aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060522124350.GBTF16286.aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@tobermory.home>; Mon, 22 May 2006 13:43:50 +0100 Received: from [192.168.124.185] (jupiter.home [192.168.124.185]) by tobermory.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0EFA6C9A; Mon, 22 May 2006 13:43:44 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4471B202.1080102@fromley.net> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:43:46 +0100 From: Spadge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Bishop References: <44709D73.5010709@fromley.net> <1148289990.11449.3.camel@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1148289990.11449.3.camel@myrtle.ukc.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net/pppoa - marked as broken in 7.0, what about 6.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:03:45 -0000 Tim Bishop wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 18:03 +0100, Spadge wrote: >> I see that on http://www.freshports.org/net/pppoa/ this port is marked >> as broken in 7.0, and as it is panicking my kernel in 6.1 I was >> wondering if it should also be marked as borken in there, too. >> >> modem_run loads the firmware fine, as far as I can make out, but pppoa3 >> causes a kernel panic on the first run. Could this be something to do >> with the difference between older fbsds having user-ppp and newer ones >> not? Or is it the other way round? I'd never paid much attention to PPP >> before this week, and only vaguely remember seeing mergemaster removing >> it when I upgraded to 6.1-release. > > I'm using it on 6.1 without any problems. Use pppoa2 like this: > > set device !"/usr/local/sbin/pppoa2 -e -1 -vpi 0 -vci 38 -v 1" > > The "-e -1" seems to work around the problem. > > Tim. > omg ... that's fixed it ... *cries* FIVE DAYS!!!!! *cries again* Thanks Tim. *cries some more* -- Spadge "Intoccabile" www.fromley.com