Bug 54026

Summary:	ppp generates Bad address error when connecting on IA64
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.3
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Description David Lawrence 2001-09-25 20:34:45 UTC

Description of Problem:
When trying to establish a PPP connection to local ISP on the ia64 platform
the logs how the following error and wvdial continuously tries to
reconnect. I know the information is correct.

Sep 25 16:26:27 dhcpd204 pppd[14033]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Sep 25 16:26:27 dhcpd204 pppd[14033]: Couldn't get channel number: Bad
address
Sep 25 16:26:28 dhcpd204 pppd[14033]: Exit.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ppp-2.4.1-2

Comment 1 David Lawrence 2001-09-25 20:54:54 UTC

Changing component to kernel and reassigning

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-26 09:56:00 UTC

will be fixed in 2.4.9-0.13

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-09-28 14:23:24 UTC

Works for me with 0.13.