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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!trinews.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!news.starnet.net!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers,London,(0956) 361 769,(0181) 840 7880) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: 2 possible bugs in FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 25 Jan 1995 00:36:05 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3g46dl$16p@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <3fe6sm$i9t@tor.oslo.nit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ivar E. Hosteng (Ivar.Hosteng@nit.no) wrote: : After installing FreeBSD on a 90Mhz pentium system having 48Mb ram, and a PCI : ATI GPT videocard and a NCR PCI scsi controller I am having a few problems. I : think theese problems looks like bugs in the kernel. Here is a description : of the two problems: : 1) I am using a PPP connection to the office (and to internet) on a leased : line. I am using 2 Us Robotics V.34 modems and is running the ports at : 115200 baud. If i kill the pppd process the system somtimes reboots without : any kernel panic or other warning. There is no information in any of the : system logs. This also have happened when the modems did not connect : properly (they connected non ARQ). It looked to like the kernel did not : linke the garbage the modem sent it. I have been using the PC for 9 months : without any problems under OS/2 so I do not think that this is a ram error : or any other hw related problem. : 2) When mounting my CD-ROM drive (a NEC 3Xi and a Toshiba XM-5201) using the : OS/2 Devcon 5 (special edition) disc 1 and doing a ls -R /cdrom the system : hangs when ls reaches the directory : <cdrom-mount-point>/devtools/gpfrexx/samples/rexx. I can press keys and they : will echo but the system does not respond to anything other than the reset : button. This happens only with this CD. The CD has no problems under dos and : OS/2. : Regards, : Ivar E. Hosteng : email: Ivar.Hosteng@nit.no Interesting.... I have a US Robotics v34, It works absolutely fine (486DX33 & isa bus), but whatever it does to my com ports, the machine BIOS doesn't recognise them anymore... A soft boot fails to find them, but a hard boot does. I suspect these things may be related. As for item 2), dunno, I havn't really used my CD-ROM under FreeBSD-2.0. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....