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From: Ivar.Hosteng@nit.no (Ivar E. Hosteng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: 2 possible bugs in FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 16 Jan 1995 16:29:10 GMT
Organization: Norweegian Information Technology
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Message-ID: <3fe6sm$i9t@tor.oslo.nit.no>
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After installing FreeBSD on a 90Mhz pentium system having 48Mb ram, and a PCI 
ATI GPT videocard and a NCR PCI scsi controller I am having a few problems. I 
think theese problems looks like bugs in the kernel. Here is a description 
of the two problems:

1)	I am using a PPP connection to the office (and to internet) on a leased 
	line. I am using 2 Us Robotics V.34 modems and is running the ports at 
	115200 baud. If i kill the pppd process the system somtimes reboots without 
	any kernel panic or other warning. There is no information in any of the 
	system logs. This also have happened when the modems did not connect 
	properly (they connected non ARQ). It looked to like the kernel did not
	linke the garbage the modem sent it. I have been using the PC for 9 months 
	without any problems under OS/2 so I do not think that this is a ram error 
	or any other hw related problem.

2)	When mounting my CD-ROM drive (a NEC 3Xi and a Toshiba XM-5201) using the 
	OS/2 Devcon 5 (special edition) disc 1 and doing a ls -R /cdrom the system
	hangs when ls reaches the directory 
	<cdrom-mount-point>/devtools/gpfrexx/samples/rexx. I can press keys and they
	will echo but the system does not respond to anything other than the reset 
	button. This happens only with this CD. The CD has no problems under dos and 
	OS/2.

Regards,
Ivar E. Hosteng 
email: Ivar.Hosteng@nit.no