Re: Alphastation and ISDN again

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Sat 03 Apr 1999, Harry Gaenslein wrote:
> 
> Config: Alphastation 250 4/266
>             96 MByte RAM
>             Latest Firmware
>             Debian 2.1
>             Kernel 2.2.5
>             isdnutils-9903031200 or isdnutils-9903291200 (tried both)

You didn't simply try the debian isdnutils package? That works fine for
me (with the exception that you must add 'netmask 0' to the 'route add
default' lines when using kernel 2.2.x).

> When i now type 'isdnctrl addif ippp0' i still get an exception:
> 
> isdnctrl: Exception at [<fffffc0000470ca0>] (fffffc0000470dc0)
> isdnctrl: Exception at [<fffffc0000470dc4>] (fffffc0000470dbc)
> addif: Unknown address

Ah, wait, this looks like the problem I was having where the isdn
module is miscompiled by egcs (I use egcs 1.03 for the kernel, as
that doesn't have this problem). An inline strlen() is botched in
isdn_common.c (or was it isdn_net.c).

Anyway, do 'isdnctrl list ippp0' and you'll see the ippp0 interface
is there... The problem is that the copying of the interface name
into user space _after_ the interface has been added gets botched.
Try simply carrying on, ignoring the error you got...


Paul Slootman
-- 
home: paul@wurtel.demon.nl | work: paul@murphy.nl | debian: paul@debian.org
http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software,   Enschede,   the Netherlands