From: cal@rushe.aero.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org Subject: Re: user ppp on 4.0 - Bad File Descriptor - MORE INFO Message-ID: <200009240045.RAA05444@calamari.aero.org>
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hihi, all - i was getting a "Bad File Descriptor" error from user ppp running 4.0 when i typed "term" to talk to the modem directly well, i fixed the problem on one machine - the manufacturer (dell) had said that it (the modem) was using COM5, but apparently that was only because COM1-4 were already conventionally defined, though COM2-4 were not being used in my particular hardware configuration - when i defined sio[0-3] with sio[1-3] disabled in my FreeBSD 4.0 kernel configuration file, dmesg reported the modem at sio4 - when i additionally defined sio[45], trying to make the modem assignment explicit, dmesg reported the modem at sio6, and when i also defined sio[67], dmesg reported the modem at sio8 - when i noticed this combination of behaviors, i decided that it meant that one extra sio place was being allocated for the modem AFTER all of the ones i defined (whether or not they were disabled) - when i took all of the sio[1-7] definitions out of the kernel configuration completely (not just disabled, but not present at all), ppp started to work more later, cal Dr. Christopher Landauer Aerospace Integration Science Center cal@aero.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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