Description of Problem: pppd fails with msg: "Couldn't get channel number: bad address" Wolverine on Bordeaux, ppp ver 2.4.0. Attempting to connect over dial-up line results in the stated error message, and an inability to connect How Reproducible: always. Bill Nottingham has reproduced this. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information: This was bantered about on the IA-64 kernel list. http://lists.linuxia64.org/archives//linux-ia64/2001-May/001642.html
Will be 'fixed' in 2.4.3-11. The fix really doesn't make that much sense, so it's not going in our devel 2.4.5 kernels until we figure out *why* it's fixing it.