Linux Gentoo wrote:
Greetings.

Problem:

When connecting to the internet using wvdial I lose my connection over
and over and over.  I get an error code 16 (the modem hung up).  Anyone
have an idea what might be going on?

I have an external modem on ttyS0.

While this is annoying, at least wvdial will redial and connect again. I am trying to download packages for upgrading & installing with emerge.
When I lose my connection then it reconnects, emerge will not restart
the file transfer. Since I can only keep a connection for a short time,
this is proving impossible. Is there a way to have emerge resume the
transfer once the connection is reestablished?



I am not familiar with wvdial, but used diald in a past. In case of problems I always identified it in logs, so let's have a look at logs too. If it's not sufficient, check if debug flag of wvdial is on and/or increase log level.

Run emerge -f some_pkg at first, it's doing append by default,
but it will not auto start after the fail. To have such functionality
u have to make a simple script for it.

Anyway from your message it's not clear if your inet connection
works even for short time. Check it by "ping www.gentoo.org"
and let us now.

noro




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