Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:13:08 -0500 From: "dave pixelhammer.com pop3 ftp" <dave@pixelhammer.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 4.1 to 4.5 - ppp problems Message-ID: <20021020221308.A22752@tantra.dynsolve.net> In-Reply-To: <20021019013718.A41983@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk>; from aw1@stade.co.uk on Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:37:18AM %2B0100 References: <20021017231020.A58328@tantra.dynsolve.net> <20021019013718.A41983@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk>
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:37:18AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:10:20PM -0500, dave pixelhammer.com pop3 ftp wrote: > > > After reformatting and installing 4.5 I cannot get ppp to work. > > Strangly enough I am getting errors of a bad file descriptor for > > /dev/cuaa4. Everything else seems to be working fine, even my > > old compex LAN card works now. > > > > Oddly enough I diffed my old kernel config against my new one > > and found no problems. I did make a /dev/cuaa4. I've looked > > through the freebsd archives and done several google searches > > with no useable results. I checked the Manual and the pedantic > > ppp primer as well. > > Random thoughts: > > You might be better off diffing your 4.1 kernel config against the 4.1 > generic config, working out what you changed, then making equivalent > (not necessarily identical!) changes based on the 4.5 generic config to > produce your own. Yes I did, no difference that was remarkable, or pertained to serial devices, ppp, or pccard. > > What happens if you use the 4.5 generic kernel? Same result > > Why stop at the almost a year old 4.5? 4.7 is out (as downloadable ISO > images at least) and is looking good. Alternatively, I assume that > 4.6.2 CDs are available now. Well... The Toshiba uses the Topic chipset which has had some trouble in the past. I also have a habit of waiting to avoid any "new" problems. I try to stay with a slightly older version of any OS making upgrades where security calls for it. I had planned though to use this laptop to follow "stable", so if I could get it logged on I'll upgrade at that time. > > Is your modem actually on cuaa4? The fifth serial port? What does > "grep sio /var/run/dmesg.boot" say? Yes, dmesg shows the pcmcia card is inserted and correctly identified on sio4. curiously, I rebooted today and did not have the device error! But I do have a problem now with a chat script failure when logging in to my ISP, which is incidently enough, me. This brings the entire story around to the begining which I will tell in a new thread. For now the problem seems to have disapeared, reason unknown. Four cold starts later cuaa4 is working. DAve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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