In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 17 As Message: 14 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:15:10 -0600 Joe Vender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe, I'm going to hack your message pretty mercilessly .. > I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and freezing issue. > Here's a quick description of my computer system: > > I have a Compaq Presario 5184 desktop about 7 or 8 years old > AMD K6-2 processor @ 380MHz > 320Mb RAM, 8Mb dedicated to video via BIOS > Quantum Bigfoot TS-6.4A Hard Drive (~6Gb capacity) > SiS 530 integrated graphics > Zoom 56k DUALMODE external modem connected to the serial port > CTX VL700 monitor (30-70/50-120 refresh rates) [..] > worked fine under FBSD until I dial up the internet and start browsing, > emailing or whatever. Then, when the computer is busy transferring packets, > it suddenly reboots without warning. Sometimes, Konqueror will freeze, the > mouse pointer will freeze for a few seconds before the reboot. It doesn't > take very long on the internet before the lockup/reboot happens, only > minutes. It happens over and over and over. I can't stay on the internet > long > enough to even use it. Nothing at all reported in /var/log/messages? > Remember, the spontaneous reboots and hangs only happen when I dial up the > internet and start browsing or sending email or such, basically start > sending/receiving packets. It doesn't happen when no packets are moving over > the modem, only when its busy. It isn't the modem failing either, obviously, > since the modem works flawlessly under Linux and windows. Ok. You mean it sometimes 'hangs' and sometimes just reboots? > One more thing that may or may not be important. I remember seeing a message > at boot up about "IRQ 3 not in the list of probed ports" or something to > that > effect. But, KPPP recognized my external modem without a problem. Its > on /dev/ttyS0 in KPPP. My computer came with an internal "winmodem" piece of > @#!$, but I removed that when I plugged in the Zoom external. The internal > modem is no longer present. The external is plugged in to the serial port. > Could this be an IRQ conflict or something like that? I'm assuming that the > message was about the absent internal modem. "Interrupts" in KInfoCenter > reports that "serial" is using interrupt 4. Please help. I don't mind going > through the reinstall if I can get FreeBSD working. Ah, so you're using KPPP rather than FreeBSD's user PPP? Have you tried using 'regular' user PPP? I don't know anything about KPPP, but would expect with KDE's linux leanings that it would be using pppd instead. Where and how have you configured ppp? In ancient PC tradition, IRQ 4 is used for the first serial port, IRQ 3 for the second. Eg from /var/run/dmesg.boot here (also an older box): sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A I have sio1 disabled in /boot/loader.conf, just to quell such messages, but it seems yours is using the correct IRQ (4) for your ext. modem. > One last question. How do I get FBSD to completely power off my computer > when > I shut down, both from KDE and from console? When I shutdown, it just gets > to > the "system halted, press any key to reboot" prompt and doesn't completely > power off. In slackware, all I have to do is uncomment the "modprobe apm" > line in rc.modules. Well that begs more questions. Are you using APM? or ACPI? What exact command are you using to shutdown? What does running just 'apm' say? > Sorry for such a long email, but I wanted to be as thourough as possible > with > the little I have to go on. Posting latest /var/run/dmesg.boot would tell us more about what FreeBSD thinks it's detecting, and I suspect that setting up user PPP by the handbook would determine whether this is a FreeBSD or KPPP problem. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
