i have had similar problems with an old pentium. i believe that the problem is with the usb card/pci bus. i'm informed by the list that the modem sucks up a lot of power for a usb device (altho it is the only device on my card) which may be causing a problem. sometimes the modem refuses the device numbers offered it by the card (can be seen in dmesg log on debian) which means the modem is never found by modem_run, this seems to be alleviated if usb-ohci isnt loaded immediately so i have inserted a sleep command into my scripts.
i cant yet tell how much better the 1.1 drivers are as i only managed to upgrade this weekend so i'll wait and see. i would imagine that the hard crashes i have experienced are more likely due to flaky hardware (the pentium or the modem) and wont be solved by the upgrade. these require a hard reset to get the mchine back (thank heavens for journaled file systems!) but the other problems usually involved modem_run dying which just require a restart of the script and some housecleaning. if i cant get an improvement in reliability i may have to recommend an upgrade to a modem/router box as replacement. unfortunately this will cost at least 130 quid which is about the same as another computer with usb. have you turned on verbose logging when you run modem_run? this will help identifying exactly where the problem starts. so to summarise - i think *my* problem is with old hardware interfacing to a crappy modem and as you are having similar sounding problems you may want to consider this too. GREG > > I'm tired of this shit. > After months and months of suffering I have at least a > Suse 7.3 running with a speedtouch. > Frequently (twice a day) the link drops and I 've script that manage to > reconnect. > But some times the "reconnect_script" doesn't work and so I added a > "reboot" . > All will be fine but even when rebooting, > Sometimes my system freezes up , typically in the morning I come by and > what I see is my keyboards LED blanking ( the "Caps" an "Scroll" leds ) > And nothing can be done to do but shutting done the power . > I'm not able to trace and locate what's wrong I need some help. > It seems to freeze nearby the moment modem_run launch the microcode > ????? > > I use a ohci pci-card I've added in the computer because my on-board > usb was troublesome . > It is a old pentium 133 running a Suse 7.3. > I use the > What is strange is that I can not reproduce the problem. When I reboot > manually, or try to force the reboot everything runs OK. Nothing > suspicious in the log > > > > > Thanks for those who could help. > > > > > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB > Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
