fedora-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 69

[Paul Lewis]

>
> --- Paul Lewis <apflewis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Trying to follow the instuctions here;
> > http://www.geocities.com/chriscmalcolm/index.htm
> > Anyway I followed the directions but get a couple of
> > odd things.
> >
> > The driver module is inserted,
> >
> > Sep  9 19:59:02 Host kernel: CnxADSL: module license
> > 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> >
> > But then the following error messages are inserted into the logs, loads
> of them...
> >
> > Sep  9 19:59:02 Host kernel:
> >/usr/src/CnxADSL-6.1.2.007-PIM-2.6-1.1-patched
> /KernelModule/ChipALCdsl.c:1533:
> > spin_is_locked on uninitialized spinlock c8b85dec.
> > Sep  9 19:59:02 Host kernel:
> >
> > If I stop and restart the service, I get the
> > following in the logs, but
> >
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3215]: Plugin
> > /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so loaded.
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3215]: PPPoATM plugin_init
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3215]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3215]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3216]: pppd 2.4.0b1 started by root, uid 0
> >
> > What does this mean??
> >
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host kernel: CnxADSL: CmgmtOpen opening
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3216]: ioctl(ATM_SETBACKEND): No such device
> > Sep  9 20:02:22 Host kernel: CnxADSL: CmgmtClose
> > Closing Sep  9 20:02:22 Host pppd[3216]: Exit.
> >
> > Normally, I would expect to see the successful
> > assignment of the IP
> > addresses.
> > Kernel is 2.6.9.1
> >
> Have you tried the instructions here
> http://www.purplepixie.org/dave/archive/adsl-howto/
> The problem is that they refer to kernel 2.4.X series.
> Hope that this helps,
>
> Antonio
>
Antionio,

Thanks muchly for your reply. I don't think I have problems with the process
of building and installing on Core 3. The directions at
http://www.geocities.com/chriscmalcolm/index.htm are more than clear on that
score. The issue is that once I have built and loaded the kernel module the
supporting pppoatm and pppd  it does not perform the way I was hoping it
would.

I have seen references to "spinlock" error messages on the web and it does
not look too serious, although once I know the system is working I would
like to supress them. There are hints that the errors are inherent in the
2.6.9 kernels.

The issue  I was hoping to get feedback about is the last set of errors at
the point where I would have hopped to see the ip addresses assigned.

Regards
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