Re: tlug: 2 Problems with Kernel 2.2.1 upgrade

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com> writes:

    >> Rebuilding the 2.0.x kernel and modules has worked for me
    >> twice, once on i836 and once on sparc.

    Neil> Hmmm, using 2.1.121 modules? You must have changed either
    Neil> the kernel source or the modutils source then, because in
    Neil> untouched form they disagree about a kerneld_msg
    Neil> structure. This is the problem I (and apparently many
    Neil> others) came across.

I didn't trace it that far.  On my i386, ppp gets loaded in
/etc/modules.  However, modprobe didn't work.  You said "can't load",
nothing about kerneld, which I can't and didn't testify to.  On the
sparc, I don't use PPP and the isofs module seems to be working fine.

The solution you post isn't forward compatible, is it?  You need two
kernelds.

In a nother post,

>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com> writes:

    Neil> So, everything seems OK. It's just that Netscape always is
    Neil> always "waiting for reply" and FTP under FileRunner always
    Neil> times out, no matter where I connect to.

As you say, everything in that looks ok to me at first glance.

I dunno about netscape, but twice this happened to me in my first HAN
setup.  The first problem was that my hosts (in particular a notebook
which is registered with my Univ LAN) were announcing bogus names
which were looked up and the IP address didn't match.  The second was
that one of my hosts didn't have a default route.  You might check on
the first (that your host is announcing a sensible domain name), the
second seems highly unlikely.  FTP is likely to get hosed by either
error since it uses a separate connection over a different port for
out-of-band information.

One other thing, for some reason 2.2 kernels (or maybe it's
pcmcia-cs-3.0.8?) seem to automatically set default routes and there
is often a problem (SIOADDR or something like that) with explicit
route commands.  Check your syslog for routing errors, maybe?  But
this doesn't seem to cause me any grief.

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