On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. > My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I > connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a > webpage seems to make no difference. Is there any way to log all > transactions going to the modem which is on ttyS2? Something like > script but for a serial port?
> Thanks, > Mike > -- > "Education is a man's going from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful > uncertainty." Moin mitnanner, until recently, I was using a modem myself (now it is being substituted by LTE). With my old 9/11 clunker, I am still running Lenny (kernel 2.6). My usb modem, undressed to it's electronic plate to keep it cool, worked reliably except for one aspect: When I disconnected it from the internet after a certain amount of data transfer, the modem was blocked and I had to pull it's usb plug in order to restore it to working condition. Then it worked reliably again. (This problem did not show up when I connected it to a jounger laptop running Wheezy.) Killing and restarting it's drivers had no effect. So, I just lived with it suspecting some usb idiosycrasy. In Your case, I would remove the modem's box, as serial modems don't seem to be sufficiently ventilated, and hang it's electronic plate vertically to cool it even more: = minus one construction site. Another delicate spot is the serial interrupts, due to poor hardware design, if you work with old hardware: Your modem could interfere with e.g. a serial mouse etc.: Try running your modem with another interrupt, w/out X, disconnect your mouse.. Look into your BIOS. I reduced my serial modem speed from 115200 to 57600, as the phone line needs only 56 Kbit. If that helps, you have probably found the culprit: rearrange your serial interrupts. Try plugging your serial modem cable to another computer outlet, + rearrange your driver's configuration. If everything fails, buy an ELSA usb modem (they work with Linux and should be cheaper by now), plug it in and look into '/var/log/messages'; my driver was '/dev/ACM0'. ELSA modems have worked well for me, so I'll keep my for reverence and as a backup. Good luck! Wilko -- Dialectic of truth: Were she is being possessed, she will be lost; where she is being sought, she may be found. (Hagia Sophia) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140322121943.ga3...@fok01.laje.edewe.de