Re: WORKAROUND ? Re: ISDN and 2.2.13 no way ;(

Karsten Keil (kkeil@suse.de)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:39:12 +0200

On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:36:10AM +0200, bvermeul@devel.blackstar.nl wrote:
> >
> >Now , why does it happen on 2.2.13 and not on 2.2.13, with the same
> >configuration ?
>
> Ok. I've seen a similar problem before, so I'll have to check a couple
> of things.
>
> a) ISDN works correctly with a kernel with only numbers (eg 2.2.12)
> b) ISDN doesn't work correctly with a kernel with other things in
> the name (eg. 2.2.13-ac1)
> c) It's got to do with the routing that ipppd does.
>
> If that's the case, you might want to try the following patch to
> ipppd. The last time I checked ipppd it didn't like extra-versions,
> it stopped it from finding the correct linux-version. I could of
> course be wrong, but if I'm not, I'm pretty sure this is the problem
> you're having.
>

Exactly.
I make yesterday a new release of utils which is available at
ftp:
//ftp.isdn4linux.de/pub/isdn4linux/utils/testing/isdn4k-utils.v3.1beta6.tar.gz

The related patch is:

--- isdn4k-utils.old/ipppd/sys-linux.c Fri Sep 24 23:21:55 1999
+++ isdn4k-utils/ipppd/sys-linux.c Mon Oct 25 14:17:29 1999
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*/

-char sys_rcsid[] = "$Id: sys-linux.c,v 1.22 1999/09/24 21:21:55 keil Exp $";
+char sys_rcsid[] = "$Id: sys-linux.c,v 1.23 1999/10/25 12:17:29 keil Exp $";

#define _LINUX_STRING_H_

@@ -1258,8 +1258,6 @@

if (*buf != '\0' && strncmp(buf, "-pre", 4) && strncmp(buf, "pre", 3)) /* ignore any "-preX" part */
{
- *version =
- *modification =
*patch = 0;
}
}

Karsten

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