Date: Thu, 28 Nov 96 09:25:24 PST From: Scott Long <cg67cs@nosc.mil> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-ALPHA problems Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19961128092630.263fa9a4@trout.nosc.mil>
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Greetings, I have been happily using FBSD 2.1.0 ever since it was released, but I wanted to get a jump on the threaded libraries so I took the plunge into 2.2-ALPHA. For background info, I'm using a 486DX2-66 with 16MB ram, a 24MB root partition on wd0s2, and 700MB usr/var/swap partition on wd1s1, a Panasonic 8X IDE-CDROM (don't know model #), a Motorola "ModemSurfr" v.34 internal modem set for com4 (0x02e8, irg 3) with a 16550A chip, a Diamond Stealth 24 VLB video card, a dual CD-ROM drive on the old Sony bus (again, don't know model #), and an IOmega Bernoilli 90MB drive on a SCSI bus. Here are the results that I have some up with so far: 1. Both IDE and Sony CD-ROMs seem to work well with the new kernel. 2. The Bernoilli SCSI bus doesn't get recognized. I haven't worked too hard on making this work, though. 3. The PPP install option has given me numerous headaches. I select "Custom" install and go through the steps of setting partitions, labels, and distribution. I then select FTP install, fill out the form with my provider's gateway address and DNS address, and then jump to vty3 to start up the connection. First thing that is wrong is that sysinstall passes to the ppp program that I'm using the /dev/cuaa0 device when I had intentionally selected /dev/cuaa3. I fix that, then type 'term' to manually dial. Whatever I type gets eched back onto the screen at this point, but the modem does not respond. It looks like the characters just aren't making it to the modem. If I escape out, give the program a dummy phone number, and type "dial" it will think that it is dialing and try to establish a link, although nothing is actually happening. Typing "close" stops this, and then I can type "term" and have access to the modem. Now the modem responds. 4. The next problem with ppp has existed with FBSD 2.1.0 also, so it's not very new. My provider provides dialup to two different terminal servers, a "Annex" server running at 14.4Kbps, and a newer "Ascend" server running at 33.6Kbps. I can dial and establish a link easily with the Annex server. Dynamic IP address assignment works good, but it's just slow. The new server is bad, though. I log into it, authenticate myself, then type 'ppp' and the command line to switch the server into ppp mode. At this point, my end *should* go into packet mode and start the link up. Instead it sits there until I tap a key. Then it goes into packet mode. Once in packet mode it takes a long time (20 seconds or more) to get a good link. Even then, the DNS seems broken. If I go to vty4 and attempt a ping with a non-numeric address, ping will just sit there, like it's stuck in DNS query. Anyway, I jump back into the install vty, and tell it to procede. It will complain a few times that it can't log onto ftp.freebsd.org but will finally succeed after 3-4 tries. It then begins to download the bin files, but after 150-200K has transfered it will loose the link and hang up. Again, an identical setup works fine with the "Annex" server. And the "Ascend" server works well with Windows and Trumpet WinSock 2.0. 5. Related to doing a ppp install, the network form asks for "additional ifconfig options". What are these? Could there be a help option available in this form that gives some advice. 6. Frustrated with the ppp install, I went into windows and downloaded the distribution onto my hard drive, then went back to sysinstall and selected the option to install from a dos partition. This only gives me the option to select which dos partition (I have two), and never asks what directory on that partition to look into. Maybe I am missing something? Hopefully I just mis-read the install and readme files. That's it so far. I appreciate any feedback, as I'm going insane using windows right now. Thanks. Scott Long
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