I was looking at this once and I think the problem might be that pppd closes the device and re-opens it before reconnecting, and the mux device is no longer usable once it has been closed.
I didn't verify this, but it seemed logical to me ;). -- Eldon Koyle -- BOFH excuse #153: Big to little endian conversion error On Jan 12 22:14+1300, Andrew Stephen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Niccolo Rigacci <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > Please tell me: with gsm0710uxd the connection is still done by > > pppd/chat? > > Yes - gsm0710muxd creates a new serial device for each application > needing access to the GSM device. You just call pppd with its own > device. > [snip] > > > > I hope to last 12 hours or so, because I do GPS live tracking > > with position upload to the internet every 5/10 seconds. > [snip] > > I've run GPRS for several hours at a time in a car travelling in some > dodgy reception areas. Sometimes it seemsed to lose connection and > re-establish itself gracefully but more often than not I'd find that > GPRS had died and pppd was still up but ineffective. I usually had to > reboot the FR before I could re-establish connection when this > happened. > -- > Andrew Stephen > http://www.evil.geek.nz/ > > It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either > charming or tedious. > - Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
