Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:53:49 +1100 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sio problems with 4.9-RELEASE-p1 ? Message-ID: <20040107135347.B46756@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Since upgrading to 4.9-RELEASE-p1 (or thereabouts) on 6 i386 low end (P5/PII class) platforms, I find I can no longer dial-in (async access _not_ PPP). The upgrade procedure is - excepting the boot to single-user mode - that documented in /usr/src/UPDATING from a local copy of the CVS repo. Mergemaster has been applied and the specific items for /etc/ttys merged. Likewise /dev/MAKEDEV has been run to remake any non-standard devices. The problem machines share this serial hardware . Modem (serial modem, not USB) . Multi-port serial card (AST clone, 4 port) Some of the other problem characteristics are . Modem can be accessed with tip. . Getty process state does not change from siocdcd, . Modem answers but does not leave command mode (evidently). . There have been no kernel configuration changes or platform hardware changes (the kernel configuration hasn't been changed since 2002). > ll /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ total 133 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 20 2002 CVS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9763 Apr 28 2003 GENERIC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 104976 Oct 23 05:04 LINT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9692 Apr 20 2002 MY_BF_TERMSERVER > . There have been no cabling changes, and as noted the modem has worked on the same hardware/cable/serial port thruought all 4.x-RELEASES. I don't know when I lost dialin access since the modem is rarely used, but I think it would have been unlikely before 4.8-RELEASE. There have been changes in sio.c but rebuilding the kernel with sio.c and sioreg.h does not help. Replacing Getty with MGetty also fails to help. Any comments will be warmly welcomed. Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne.
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