Re: Upgrade from 4.1 to 4.5 - ppp problems

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

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