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From: Phil Karn <karn@unix.ka9q.ampr.org>
To: nate@mt.sri.com
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In-reply-to: <199608191448.IAA15872@rocky.mt.sri.com> (message from Nate
	Williams on Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:48:58 -0600 (MDT))
Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000
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Here's a possibly significant clue. I'm using SLIP at the moment, at
least until I can get a PCMCIA Ethernet card that's supported. The
installation scripts set me up with some ifconfig commands in the
startup file, but no slattach command. If I manually attach the slip
interface before doing anything with the network, then I can run
sendmail, telnet, etc just fine without any kernel panics (so far).

Could there be an uninitialized pointer somewhere in the slip driver
that gets set properly by slattach, thus preventing a kernel page
fault when the pointer is dereferenced?

Phil