Are you using cua for your modem? Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the > persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it > would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it > attempts to dial and then stops short. It does this about three times and > then stops. I thought maybe the modem wasn't re-initializing properly > (It's a rather old AT&T DataExpress 28.8) so I went to my chat script and > added ath,at&f before the dial string. ath should hang up my modem and > at&f should reinitialize it. I have checked these commands with the modem > manual. This didn't work either. In fact I was unable to use pppd until > I rebooted. (yes even stopping it and starting it again didn't work.) > The odd thing was I could redial with minicom. So there is something > wrong with pppd or my setup of it. > > The immediate emergency is gone. I have found a small program called > pppupd which can watch the connection and bring it back up again if > needed. This seems to be able to redial without any problems. Still I'd > like to get to the bottom of the ppp problem if anyone has any ideas.
-- Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
