After more than a year I tried to tether my mobile to my laptop to connect to GPRS using kppp. I noticed that kppp hangs and I have to kill it, while it hangs with "Modem Ready". I can query the modem successfully using kppp, and it responds to ATI initialisation commands, so now I am trying to understand what is wrong with it and why the connection does not complete.
ifconfig -a does not show rfcomm0, but this may be because it never completes the connection to my mobile phone provider's network, so the ppp link is not established. I can see that the rfcomm device is being created: # ls -la /dev/rfcomm* crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 216, 0 Nov 17 15:51 /dev/rfcomm0 and it does try to connect until it freezes showing "Modem Ready", but I am getting no more errors to know what to do next. I was thinking that this may be related to the udev NIC renaming change that happened within the last year. However, I never had any udev rules to manage rfcomm and from what I recall vaguely when the udev update came, I had no problem connecting (but memory may be failing me after all this time). It could of course be related to my mobile phone providers settings - I haven't changed these for a long time and looking on the Internet I can't find if they are any different now. How should I troubleshoot this further? Could someone please hold my hand to set up ppp so that I can avoid kppp and its freezing behaviour? -- Regards, Mick
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