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Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000
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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...