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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: pppd causting kernel panic! Date: 6 Feb 1995 17:40:23 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3h5mu7$sqt@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <JNIALS.95Feb2142711@pentagon.io.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au jnials@pentagon.io.com (Jon R. Nials) writes: >I'm running FreeBSD 2.0 (From the Walnut Creek CDROM). I've rebuilt >the kernel to include support for ppp, rebuild the pppd program, and >tried to use ppp. Unfortunately, as soon as I actually establish a >ppp session, the kernel panics on me with a trap 12, stating that the >pppd caused a page fault in supervisor mode. I would suspect that this is a hardware problem being tickled by pppd, rather than a fault in pppd itself; I have experienced the same crash in a number of situations, all of which were resolved by either reconfiguring the motherboard chipset (FreeBSD seems to push hardware a lot harder than Linux or anything else does), or replacing faulty system memory. >I've tried using slip, but I have to go through enormous gyrations to >actually get it to work. I'm running out of time. I have to get this >working soon, or go back to Linux. I'd really appreciate some help. What sort of 'enormous gyrations'? SLIP is trivial, I suspect you are having more serious problems than you realise. >-Jon -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #