Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:44:53 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.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: <3218B625.FF6D5DF@whistle.com> References: <199608191619.JAA07254@unix.ka9q.ampr.org>
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Phil Karn wrote: > > 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 I vaguely remember someone recently patched something like this...
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