Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 15:04:42 -0500 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com Subject: Probable problem with SL/IP installations (ifconfig sl0 not run.) Message-ID: <199512032004.PAA18842@ponds.UUCP>
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After telneting into freefall, I think I've determined
the bug in sysinstall that prevents SL/IP stuff from
working.
The 'devp' in tcpOpenDialog() has been passed an interface
name of "cuaa0" (in my case.)
It then winds up setting the VAR_IFCONFIG value based
on that device name (it would be something like: ifconfig_cuaa0)
Later, in network.c, the device name (passed in in 'dev') has
become 'sl0', network.c at line 95 uses that to check for
the environment variable 'ifconfig_sl0'; which has not been
set.
[Notable, I noticed in examining the debugging information on VTY2,
there has been no 'ifconfig sl0' command executed...]
So, network.c issues the message that sl0 isn't set, and fails
the install.
Jordan - can we get this repaired and make another boot floppy
available?
I thought about a hack to set this with something like:
ifconfig_sl0=TRUE; export ifconfig_sl0; ifconfig sl0 ...; slattach ...
in the slattach command, but that starts up a sub-process, and won't
set the environment variable properly (it does get the ifconfig working,
and I can merrily run mount_nfs on the "holographic shell")
I hope fixing this will allow more people to try out FreeBSD 2.1, as
I'm sure not all ISPs use PPP (e.g. I use SL/IP to connect to mine,
although I had a choice.)
- Thanks -
- Dave Rivers -
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