Huh, what is setserial used for? I thought this didn't have any effect with pcmcia. --Hans
BTW, what are you running: Slink, Potato or Corel? Where did you get the upgraded packages? At 01:14 PM 2/25/00 +0800, Jonathan Chang wrote: >Hi, all, > > For those who have ppp problem, here is my test report. There are a >good news and a bad news. The good one is that my PCMCIA modem card works >and is very stable now. The bad news is I can not determine exactly where >this bugfix comes from. > > First I briefly describe my environment. I am currently a graduated >student of National Taiwan University. When I stay at school, I always use >PCMCIA Ethernet card to access the Internet. When the winter vacation >came, I went back to my home town for two weeks. So I bought a PCMCIA >modem card such that I can use dial up during the vacation. > > At my home town, I can use the new modem card, but the connection >worked for just five minutes and then suddenly hanged up. The weird thing >I noticed is the content in ppp.log: > >Feb 10 22:14:28 newton pppd[449]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x8 magic=0xa88cda89] >Feb 10 22:14:28 newton pppd[449]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x8 magic=0x0] >Feb 10 22:14:58 newton pppd[449]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x9 magic=0xa88cda89] >Feb 10 22:14:58 newton pppd[449]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x9 magic=0x0] >Feb 10 22:15:28 newton pppd[449]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xa magic=0xa88cda89] >Feb 10 22:15:58 newton pppd[449]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xb magic=0xa88cda89] >Feb 10 22:16:28 newton pppd[449]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xc magic=0xa88cda89] > >That is, the pppd can not receive acknowledge of EchoReq after some time. > >After I was back to school, I reported my situation on the list and >browsed the bug tracking system on http://www.debian.org. Unfortunately, >it seems this problem is pretty involved. Ppp maintainer thought this is >actually setserial problem, but setserial maintainer guessed it is >pcmcia-cs that caused this problem. After a while, the setserial >maintainer reported the PCMCIA modem problem has been fixed. So, I decided >to try those upgraded packages (ppp, setserial) yesterday and found the >modem card works fine. > >Hence, there are two possibilities: >1. The ISP circuits and equipments at my school is better than those at my >home town. So this modem card can now work at my home town. > >2. The bug is fixed by the upgraded setserial package. However, since I >usually use Ethernet access, I don't know which revision fixed this >problem. > >I did not use the remedies mentioned by George Bonser yesterday. But since >the problem is already solved, so I can not determine whether his >solutions can also fix the problem. > >So that's my report. Any idea? > > Jonathan Chang > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
