Re: NT causes oops in 2.2.xx

Peter Colman (pete@mssint.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:12:58 +0100


David Woodhouse wrote:

> pete@mssint.demon.co.uk said:
> > I have noticed that the difference between the user who crashes the
> > system and all the others is that, in her dial- up-networking setup on
> > NT she had enabled "modem error control" and "modem compression". I
> > have switched these off - hopefully the problem will dissapear.
>
> What's the compression setup at your end?
>
> I found that the ISDN code would oops and die if ipppd had compression
> enabled, but I hadn't loaded the isdn_bsdcomp or isdn_lzscomp modules.
>
> Either specifying noccp on the ipppd command line, or loading the compression
> modules, fixed the problem for me.
>
> You should also probably try the latest ISDN code snapshots, as they're very
> slow to get merged into Linus' kernel.
>

Thanks for your input - I have posted the final findings for this problem,
including details on how to produce it, to
the linux kernel & the i4l archives. I am using the latest ISDN snapshots - I have
to, since support for my
AVM Fritz!PCI cards is not included in the standard kernel .

Pete

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