stephen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Just to update this old thread a bit: actually this didn't work
perfectly, it only worked when I started up Linux when the PC was
already switched on beforehand. When switching the PC on from cold and
booting into Linux, it did not work, I think because it was trying to
talk to the ADSL modem before the modem was ready. So following a
suggestion on another web page I found, instead of doing the above, I
put the following line in my /etc/inittab:
s1:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd call <provider>
This seems to have solved the problem, but there is one minor niggle left: when this line
in inittab is being processed, pppd seems to crash out the first few times it is started
- I assume for the same reason mentioned above, i.e. the ADSL modem is not yet ready -
and this causes an error that it is "respawning too fast" and will be put on
hold for 5 minutes (I don't have the exact text of the message). Somehow though it is
managing to get pppd running because when I log in, iceweasel can connect to the internet
straight away.
I can probably work out a way to put in a delay between each respawn to stop
this message, but if anyone has a good idea or knows the 'right' way to do this
I'd be grateful.
Thanks in advance
Try adding "maxfail 0" to your config file. The default configuration
is to try 10 times then give up. It's probably giving up before the DSL
modem has had a chance to come up. That would be a better solution than
adding pppd to your inittab.
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