Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:26:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Phil Karn <karn@unix.ka9q.ampr.org> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000 Message-ID: <199608191626.KAA16237@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199608191619.JAA07254@unix.ka9q.ampr.org> References: <199608191448.IAA15872@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199608191619.JAA07254@unix.ka9q.ampr.org>
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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? It's definitely a possibility. Let me see if I can reproduce it locally. Nate
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