In article <200311100515.hAA5FWcQ010277@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>,
John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

Have you tried to connect to it with tip or kermit?

christos

>     I have a strange problem with a Novatel Merlin CDPD modem.  It
>works fine under 1.5.2, but fails with all subsequent versions of
>NetBSD.  It has been tried with various versions of 1.6 and -current
>(the latest being built from Oct. 20, 2003 source code).  It is a
>PCMCIA card that emulates a serial port.  You talk to it using PPP and
>it establishes the connection with the CDPD network.
>
>     Under 1.5.2 it works fine.  Under -current, PPP will establish a
>connection, but after that no traffic appears to flow.  I ran tcpdump
>on the PPP interface to try to see what happens.  When I try to ping
>outbound, I didn't see any packets going out.  When I tried to ping
>inbound from a different machine, I saw normal traffic.  I was not able
>to establish any kind of outbound connection since no packets went
>out.  When I tried to establish an inbound SSH connection, I could see
>the packets coming in, but there seemed to be lots of missing outbound
>packets.
>
>     Does anybody have any ideas?  It's looks like some kind of flow
>control / interrupt issue to me.  Anyways, here is the pertinent dmesg
>info from the laptop:
>
>NetBSD 1.5.2 (LAPTOP) #4: Wed Mar 19 19:32:44 PST 2003
>   root@laptop:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LAPTOP
>cpu0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) (686-class), 298.55 MHz
>total memory = 255 MB
>avail memory = 233 MB
>using 3296 buffers containing 13184 KB of memory
>BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd7a0
>PCI BIOS rev. 2.1 found at 0xfd9c5
>pcibios: config mechanism [1][x], special cycles [x][x], last bus 4
>PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 found at 0xfdf40, size 160 bytes (8 entries)
>PCI Interrupt Router at 000:02:0 (Intel 82371FB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX))
>------------------------------------------
> device vendor product pin PIRQ IRQ stage
>------------------------------------------
>000:02:2 0x8086 0x7112   D  0x03  11  0    already assigned
>000:03:0 0x104c 0xac1d   A  0x00  11  0    already assigned
>000:03:1 0x104c 0xac1d   A  0x00  11  0    already assigned
>000:06:0 0x11c1 0x0449   A  0x02  11  0    already assigned
>000:07:0 0x125d 0x1969   A  0x01   5  0    already assigned
>001:00:0 0x10c8 0x0005   A  0x00  11  0    already assigned
>------------------------------------------
>PCI bridge 0: primary 0, secondary 1, subordinate 1
>PCI bridge 1: primary 0, secondary 2, subordinate 2
>PCI bridge 2: primary 0, secondary 3, subordinate 3
>PCI bus #3 is the last bus
>[System BIOS Setting]-----------------------
> device vendor product
> register space address    size
>--------------------------------------------
>000:00:0 0x8086 0x7190
>       10h mem  0xf8000000 0x04000000
>               [OK]
>000:01:0 0x8086 0x7191
>               [OK]
>000:02:0 0x8086 0x7110
>               [OK]
>000:02:1 0x8086 0x7111
>       20h port 0x0000fc90 0x00000010
>               [OK]
>000:02:2 0x8086 0x7112
>       20h port 0x0000fca0 0x00000020
>               [OK]
>000:02:3 0x8086 0x7113
>               [OK]
>000:03:0 0x104c 0xac1d
>       10h mem  0x10000000 0x00001000
>               [OK]
>000:03:1 0x104c 0xac1d
>       10h mem  0x20000000 0x00001000
>               [OK]
>000:06:0 0x11c1 0x0449
>       10h mem  0xfedffc00 0x00000100
>       14h port 0x0000fc88 0x00000008
>       18h port 0x0000f800 0x00000100
>               [OK]
>000:07:0 0x125d 0x1969
>       10h port 0x0000fcc0 0x00000040
>       14h port 0x0000fc60 0x00000010
>       18h port 0x0000fc70 0x00000010
>       1ch port 0x0000fc58 0x00000004
>       20h port 0x0000fc5c 0x00000004
>               [OK]
>001:00:0 0x10c8 0x0005
>       10h mem  0xf6000000 0x01000000
>       14h mem  0xfe400000 0x00400000
>       18h mem  0xfeb00000 0x00100000
>               [OK]
>--------------------------[  0 devices bogus]
>Physical memory end: 0x0ffed000
>PCI memory mapped I/O space start: 0x10000000
>mainbus0 (root)
>pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
>pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
>pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
>pchb0: Intel 82443BX Host Bridge/Controller (rev. 0x03)
>ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: Intel 82443BX AGP Interface (rev. 0x03)
>pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
>pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
>...
>cbb0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Texas Instruments PCI1251 PCI-CardBus
>Bridge (rev. 0x01)
>cbb1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1: Texas Instruments PCI1251 PCI-CardBus
>Bridge (rev. 0x01)
>...
>cbb0: interrupting at irq 11
>cbb0: cacheline 0x0 lattimer 0x80
>cbb0: bhlc 0x821000 lscp 0x80020200
>cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
>cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 2 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x80
>pcmcia0 at cardslot0
>cbb1: interrupting at irq 11
>cbb1: cacheline 0x0 lattimer 0x80
>cbb1: bhlc 0x821000 lscp 0x80030300
>cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
>cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x80
>pcmcia1 at cardslot1
>biomask ef4d netmask ef4d ttymask ffcf
>...
>pcmcia0: CIS version PC Card Standard 6.1
>pcmcia0: CIS info: Novatel Wireless, Merlin Type II Wireless IP Modem, NRM6831,
>pcmcia0: Manufacturer code 0xa4, product 0x1aaf
>pcmcia0: function 0: serial port, ccr addr 200 mask 3
>pcmcia0: function 0, config table entry 32: I/O card; irq mask 10;
>iomask 3, iospace 3f8-3ff; io8 irqlevel powerdown
>pcmcia0: function 0, config table entry 33: I/O card; irq mask 8; iomask
>3, iospace 2f8-2ff; io8 irqlevel powerdown
>pcmcia0: function 0, config table entry 34: I/O card; irq mask 10;
>iomask 3, iospace 3e8-3ef; io8 irqlevel powerdown
>pcmcia0: function 0, config table entry 35: I/O card; irq mask 8; iomask
>3, iospace 2e8-2ef; io8 irqlevel powerdown
>pcmcia0: function 0, config table entry 36: I/O card; irq mask ffff;
>iomask 3, iospace 0-7; io8 irqlevel powerdown
>com2 at pcmcia0 function 0: serial device
>com2: ns16550a, working fifo
>
>Here is the PPP config:
>
>/etc/ppp/chat.cdpd:
>
>REPORT CONNECT
>HELLO ATDT\T
>
>/etc/ppp/options:
>
>115200
>crtscts
>defaultroute
>lock
>mru 296
>mtu 576
>noipdefault
>modem
>netmask 255.255.255.255
>noauth
>
>/etc/ppp/peers/cdpd:
>
>57600
>connect "chat -f /etc/ppp/chat.cdpd -r /etc/ppp/connect-report -T 10.0.0.1"
>N.N.N.N:
>persist