From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 17:23: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E37D37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust86.tnt6.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.10.187.86]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05602; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00990; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:19:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: "Ian P. Thomas" Message-Id: <200106060019.UAA00990@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: umodem/Ricochet problems In-Reply-To: <15133.20455.592406.880040@guru.mired.org> from Mike Meyer at "Jun 5, 2001 04:32:23 pm" To: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:19:13 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I used to work for an ISP that offered these modems. They tend to flake out if infrared is enabled in the BIOS and sometimes have issues with Palm Sync software. Of course these were both problems on only Windows OS's, but that was all we officially supported. Ian In the last episode, Mike Meyer stated... > Mike Comb types: > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure if this is the proper list for this. Please mail me > > privately if I should take this elsewhere. > > > > I am having problems with the umodem driver with a Ricochet GS USB modem > > under stable (built June 3). The modem is new so I don't know if this > > is a new problem. When the modem disconnects (ISP disconnects me or I > > go out of range) FreeBSD crashes with this output... > [...] > > Can anyone tell me where to go from here? > > Read the handbook entry on debugging kernel at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/kerneldebug.html > >. That will tell you how to get the information a programmer needs to > fix the code - well, one hopes that information is there. If you're a > programmer and can fix the problem, submit a PR with the patch. If > not, get a stack trace and either post a PR so the umodem maintainer > will look at it, or drop me a note and I - I've done a bit of work on > the umodem driver - will see what I can do. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message