net/pppoa - marked as broken in 7.0, what about 6.1?

[Spadge]

Tim Bishop wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 18:03 +0100, Spadge wrote:
>> I see that on http://www.freshports.org/net/pppoa/ this port is marked 
>> as broken in 7.0, and as it is panicking my kernel in 6.1 I was 
>> wondering if it should also be marked as borken in there, too.
>>
>> modem_run loads the firmware fine, as far as I can make out, but pppoa3 
>> causes a kernel panic on the first run. Could this be something to do 
>> with the difference between older fbsds having user-ppp and newer ones 
>> not? Or is it the other way round? I'd never paid much attention to PPP 
>> before this week, and only vaguely remember seeing mergemaster removing 
>> it when I upgraded to 6.1-release.
> 
> I'm using it on 6.1 without any problems. Use pppoa2 like this:
> 
> set device !"/usr/local/sbin/pppoa2 -e -1 -vpi 0 -vci 38 -v 1"
> 
> The "-e -1" seems to work around the problem.
> 
> Tim.
> 
omg ... that's fixed it ... *cries*

FIVE DAYS!!!!!

*cries again*

Thanks Tim.

*cries some more*

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