Bug#445711: pppd patch for testing

2009-01-23 Thread Mikko Rapeli
I verified the patch[1] also with Debian Lenny ppp version 2.4.4rel-10.1 and the Huawei E220. Here are logs of failure without the patch and success with the patch applied. udev fired up 'pppd call gprs' when /dev/ttyUSB came available.

Bug#445711: pppd patch for testing

2009-01-22 Thread Mikko Rapeli
Although this problem is not strictly a PPP one, a patch to pppd might help. It was mentioned in comp.os.linux.networking discussion (quoted below) and did the trick for a Huawei E220 USB and an Option PC card. If I got it right, with the patch pppd asks DNS settings until all IPCP setings are