From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 17:45:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aero.org (aero.org [130.221.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC3937B43C for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by aero.org id <17100-3>; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:45:39 -0700 Received: from rushe.aero.org(130.221.201.83) via SMTP by aero.org, id smtpdAAAa01222; Sat Sep 23 17:45:30 2000 Received: from calamari.aero.org (calamari.aero.org [130.221.202.67]) by rushe.aero.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24122; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cal@localhost) by calamari.aero.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA05444; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009240045.RAA05444@calamari.aero.org> From: cal@rushe.aero.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user ppp on 4.0 - Bad File Descriptor - MORE INFO Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:45:35 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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