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#! rnews 1755 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kermit can't access com port Date: 19 Jul 1995 23:20:40 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3uk408$1bq@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <3ujhtb$qpv@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <3ujhtb$qpv@agate.berkeley.edu>, Geordan Rosario <cs61a-bf@anaconda.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >I seem to be having trouble with kermit and FreeBSD 2.0. If I try to SET LINE >/dev/modem (linked to /dev/tty01) it tells me that it is locked. I checked >/var/spool/lock and nothing was there. If I try SET LINE /dev/modem as root, >it sits there until I hit ctrl-c, and then it works. Try dialling out on /dev/cua01 - that should fix the problem. >I'd really like to get kermit to work so I can automate slip logins. (Aside, >has anyone else out there had problems with ppp? Mine starts to connect and >then drops carrier.) Have you applied the kernel patch? It's a one-liner that stops PPP dropping carrier (if you're lucky) and crashing the kernel (if you're not). In /usr/src/sys/net/if_ppp.c, insert the line marked with a '+' as line 435: m_freem(m0); return (ENOBUFS); } + m->m_len = 0; if (uio->uio_resid >= MCLBYTES / 2) MCLGET(m, M_DONTWAIT); len = M_TRAILINGSPACE(m); (without the plus sign, of course!), then rebuild your kernel. Hope this helps, James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'