Branden Robinson wrote: > I used to have exactly that problem. When the modem got hung up it wedged > and I couldn't get back to it. > > It's probably been a year since I had to deal with it, though. IIRC it was > a U.S. Robotics internal giving me this problem, and it has to do with > one of the RS-232 lines being held high when it should go low. > This kind of thing is apparently "remembered" in the modem's hardware, and > you have to power cycle it to make it let go. This is one reason I wound > up going with an external modem -- at least you can cycle that SOB without > taking your whole damn machine down.
Yeah, I've got this problem too. Highly annoying. Here the kernel also outputs an error message when the modem locks - sent that to Alan Cox ages ago and he acknowledged the problem but I haven't seen a fix yet. I'm not sure if this is a hardware or a software problem. > As far as pppd itself goes, try fooling with the "local" option. Hm, interesting, will do. -- see shy jo
