Re: ftdi error in /var/log/messages when connecting to gprs

["Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>]

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0200
Luca Ognibene <ognibene@antek.it> wrote:

| Hi, i have an error very often when using a USB modem (from Hamlet) to
| connect to gprs. This is the log from /var/log/messages:
| 
| Jul  6 17:06:51 aylook012 chat[4783]: Failed (NO CARRIER)
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 pppd[4756]: Modem hangup
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 pppd[4756]: Exit.
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 pppd[4795]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: c01e58c5
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: Modules linked in: ppp_deflate
| zlib_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc ftdi_sio
| usbserial bttv video_buf firmware_class v4l2_common btcx_risc tveeprom
| videodev i2c_algo_bit i2c_core snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss
| snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc sd_mod
| pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core ipv6 ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG
| ipt_state ipt_pkttype ipt_recent ipt_iprange ipt_physdev ipt_multiport
| ipt_conntrack iptable_mangle ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp
| iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack
| iptable_filter ip_tables ohci_hcd usbcore sata_sis libata scsi_mod
| 8139too mii ide_cd cdrom rtc ext3 jbd ide_disk ide_generic via82cxxx
| trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200 rz1000 piix
| pdc202xx_old opti621 ns87415 hpt366 hpt34x
| generic cy82c693 cs5530 cs5520 cmd64x atiixp amd74xx alim15x3 aec62xx
| pdc202xx_new ide_core unix fbcon tileblit font bitblit
| vesafb cfbcopyarea cfbimgblt
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: fbfillrect softcursor capability commoncap
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: CPU:    0
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: EIP:    0060:[tty_get_baud_rate+5/76]
|    Not tainted VLI
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282   (2.6.12-1-386)
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: EIP is at tty_get_baud_rate+0x5/0x4c
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 pppd[4797]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 pppd[4797]: Removed stale lock on modem (pid 4795)
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: eax: cb14ca00   ebx: 00000000   ecx:
| cef2f080   edx: cef2a000
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: esi: cb14ca00   edi: cb14f580   ebp:
| cef2f080   esp: c42a5e34
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: Process pppd (pid: 4795,
| threadinfo=c42a4000 task=c26ee020)
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: Stack: cea28f40 cfb3e279 00000000
| cea28f40 cb14ca00 cb14f580 cfb3e205 cb14ca00
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:        00000008 80000cbd cb14f580
| ce712c00 cfb3ff15 cb14ca00 00000000 8000007b
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:        cb14f580 cb14ca00 cb14ca00
| ce712c00 cfb3eecb cb14ca00 c42a5e90 ce53695c
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: Call Trace:
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [pg0+259613305/1069900800]
| get_ftdi_divisor+0x15/0x2b8 [ftdi_sio]
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [pg0+259613189/1069900800]
| change_speed+0x29/0x88 [ftdi_sio]
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [pg0+259620629/1069900800]
| ftdi_set_termios+0x201/0x574 [ftdi_sio]
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [pg0+259616459/1069900800]
| ftdi_open+0x77/0x160 [ftdi_sio]
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [link_path_walk+86/244]
| link_path_walk+0x56/0xf4
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [pg0+259654503/1069900800]
| serial_open+0x7b/0xfc [usbserial]
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [tty_open+250/700] tty_open+0xfa/0x2bc
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [chrdev_open+107/304]
| chrdev_open+0x6b/0x130
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [dentry_open+178/460]
| dentry_open+0xb2/0x1cc
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [filp_open+70/80] filp_open+0x46/0x50
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [__fput+157/236] __fput+0x9d/0xec
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [sys_open+47/104] sys_open+0x2f/0x68
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: Code: ef 89 43 08 8b 04 95 20 52 30 c0
| 5b c3 90 8d 4a 0f 3b 0d 9c 52 30 c0 77 e5 89 ca 8b 04 95 20 52 30 c0 5b
| c3 89 f6 53 8b 5c 24 08 <ff> 73 68 e8 af ff ff ff 5a 3d 00 96 00 00 74
| 03 5b c3 90 8b 93
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL
| pointer dereference at virtual address 00000084
| Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: cfb48bac
| 
| Motherboard: Asus P5S800-VM
| Modem (from lsusb):
| Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices
| International, Ltd 8-bit FIFO
| Linux: i'm using a Debian sarge (kernel 2.6.8), i've also tried with a
| 2.6.16 from debian backport (the log is using 2.6.16)

 Your log says:

"""
Jul  6 17:06:52 aylook012 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282   (2.6.12-1-386)
"""

 Please, could you try to reproduce with 2.6.18-rc1 ?

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino