Hi all, I'm running Debian Potato with an Intel Ham Modem. Using either pon/poff or wvdial I seem to get the same problem after dialling. The modem connects and makes plenty of noise. with wvdial : After connection I get : 'Looks like a login prompt sending <username>' then : 'Looks like a password prompt sending <password>' then after a second or 2 'Don't know what to do, starting pppd and hoping for the best' pppd starts but after a few seconds it 'gives up' and terminates. Looking in the log I can see the call to pppd<-->/dev/ham then (I have debugging turned on) after a few lines pppd 'detects loopback' and terminates. It appears that when pppd attaches to the modem it thinks that 'the serial device is looped back'. (if I send 'ATZ'>/dev/ham the modem clicks satisfyingly...) and it is properly set up because sometimes it works!!!! - this is the annoying thing, last night it connected first time and I surfed for half hour, then when I tried a little later (even after reboots) it went back to the previous state. lsmod shows all of the relevant modules loaded, /etc/ppp/<files> all appear to be in order ... stuck!
The best thing is that wvdial and pppd must die in a nasty way. ps shows them, killall -TERM doesn't kill them which leaves a kill -9 as the only way to get rid of them. if I rmmod all of the relevant modules then restart the whole process all of the modules are reloaded etc... as should be
pon gives the same log output but there is no detail on the screen. poff afterwards gives an error that pppd is not running.
Really starting to do my head in - as well as probably costing me a small packet in 5p a shot aborted phone-calls. I Have 2 ISP Accounts - freeserve and uklinux (with a few optional numbers), both of which experience the same problem.
Has anyone had anything similar or can you suggest a possible cause .. Cheers Earl
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