On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:33:16AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > I don't know, since I need to kill the ppp connection to get access to > the serial port, needn't I?
No, you don't. You get 3 or 4 serial ports named /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyUSB2 or /dev/ttyUSB3 and on the /dev/ttyUSB2 port you can run AT commands while beeing connected on port /dev/ttyUSB0 with ppp without killing it. But if you disconnect your terminal from /dev/ttyUSB2 the ppp connection will hangup (some bug), so a workaround is to first run statserial on /dev/ttyUSB2, and keep it running all the time. Then you can connect and disconnect a terminal from /dev/ttyUSB2 and ppp will not hangup, until you don't stop statserial. Its available in Debian in a package 'statserial'. > > Revision: 3.19.0Hd (Date: May 31 2006, Time: 15:49:25) > > Can I upgrade card firmware without Windows? No. At least not currently, until someone writes a firmware upgrade program for GNU/Linux. I searched a bit, and I now suspect that tha hangs might be because of this bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6402 They write that in vanilla kernel 2.6.15.7 it is fine, and the bug was introduced in some later version, so now I am compiling 2.6.15.7 to see if it'll fix it. You may try the same, your card is different hardware. If you do try, tell me if it fixed it or not. -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
