i shut down my card power (cardctl eject 1) when not in use, and shut down networking altogether because i don't use it, and have had recent success with keeping the modem up, but the jury's still out. it was up last night all night with no freezes. incidentally, restarting pcmcia (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) resets the modem when frozen (but all of windows locks up when it happens under windows 98, very ugly). i don't get any hangups, so i assume that's something else for you (isp, phone lines, whatever).
nathanp On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:29:14PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:00:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > yeah, me too, same card. i get: > > > > No response to 4 echo-requests > > Serial link appears to be disconnected. > > Terminating on signal 15. > > > > is this the same for you. i thought it was noisy phone lines or > > something, but if it's the modem, i'd really like to know. i do not > > live in a hot environment, however... > > > > > Yeah, that's what I get some of the time. Like just now I got: > > > Feb 19 21:55:05 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x8 "Peer not > respondi > Feb 19 21:55:08 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x9 "Peer not > respondi > Feb 19 21:55:11 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0xa "Peer not > respondi > Feb 19 21:55:14 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0xb "Peer not > respondi > Feb 19 21:55:17 localhost pppd[375]: Connection terminated. > Feb 19 21:55:17 localhost pppd[375]: Connect time 8.1 minutes. > Feb 19 21:55:17 localhost pppd[375]: Sent 106115 bytes, received 1329372 > bytes. > Feb 19 21:55:18 localhost pppd[375]: Exit. > > > But I also get other drop-outs. Possible ordinary ones? My neighbours were > complaining they get lots of drop-outs too. However the other time just now > when the modem failed, the error was different, e.g.: > > Feb 19 22:00:21 localhost pppd[1449]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <mrru 1506>] > Feb 19 22:00:21 localhost pppd[1449]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap > 0x0> <m > Feb 19 22:00:42 localhost last message repeated 7 times > Feb 19 22:00:45 localhost pppd[1449]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > Feb 19 22:00:45 localhost pppd[1449]: Connection terminated. > Feb 19 22:00:46 localhost pppd[1449]: Exit. > > or > > Feb 19 21:58:13 localhost pppd[1098]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 > magic=0x11456c48] > Feb 19 21:58:34 localhost pppd[1098]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid > 1109), > Feb 19 21:58:43 localhost pppd[1098]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 > magic=0x11456c48] > Feb 19 21:59:11 localhost pppd[1098]: Hangup (SIGHUP) > Feb 19 21:59:11 localhost pppd[1098]: Modem hangup > > But sometimes the modem freezes up, sometimes it just shuts down cleanly. > So it's hard to be conclusive about what the problem is. It seems like when > I get the timeouts and no response, that's when the modem freezes up. The > other times it gets a Hangup signal and shuts down normally, an ordinary > phone line drop-out. The key problem I've been noticing is the way the > modem just freezes solid, rather than simply dropping a line. > > What sort of warranty do we get on these Xircom modems? ;/ > > Drew > > > > > > > > > -- > PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt > Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
