Hi all: Has anybody noticed this behaviour with BSNL Dataone modem ? i use a simple (non-WiFi) Type 1 modem.
The modem seems to freeze up every time the BSNL line goes down for a long time. Need to power cycle the device to get going ! I noted this trend as the modem is powered with a dedicated UPS unit and hence not subject to power outage. The device info is as follows: Board ID: 96338L-2M-8M Software Version: 3.08.02.UB.01.14_1357_100807 Bootloader (CFE) Version: 1.0.37-10.1 Firmware Version: UT300R2U.0011.01 Hardware Version: UT300R2U 2.2 Model Name: UT300R2U Here is an excerpt of the log Jan 2 20:30:21 syslog emerg BCM96345 started: BusyBox v1.00 (2007.10.08-08:31+0000) Jan 2 20:30:24 daemon debug pppd[199]: Sent packet: Ether addr: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (PPPOE Discovery) PPPoE hdr: ver=0x1 type=0x1 code=0x09 sid=0x0000 length=0x0013 (PADI) PPPoE tag: type=0101 length=0007 (Service name) data (UTF-8): dataon Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Linux version 2.6.8.1 (r...@newbuildpc) (gcc version 3.4.2) #1 Mon Oct 8 13:57:01 IST 2007 Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: devideid 0 Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Serial flash device: name A25L16P, id 0x7f37, size 2048KB Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: 96338L-2M-8M prom init Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: CPU revision is: 00029010 Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Determined physical RAM map: Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: memory: 007a0000 @ 00000000 (usable) Jan 2 20:30:24 user debug kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 1952 Jan 2 20:30:24 user debug kernel: DMA zone: 1952 pages, LIFO batch:1 Jan 2 20:30:24 user debug kernel: Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Jan 2 20:30:24 user debug kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Built 1 zonelists Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Kernel command line: root=31:0 ro noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200 Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: brcm mips: enabling icache and dcache... Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes. Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Primary data cache 8kB 2-way, linesize 16 bytes. Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: PID hash table entries: 32 (order 5: 256 bytes) Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Using 120.000 MHz high precision timer. Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Jan 2 20:30:24 user info kernel: Memory: 5600k/7808k available (1522k kernel code, 2188k reserved, 221k data, 80k init, 0k highmem) Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: KLOB Pool 1 Initialized: 1048576 bytes <0x80600000 ... 0x80700000> Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 239.20 BogoMIPS Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Jan 2 20:30:24 user warn kernel: Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. ... This runs a Linux 2.6.x kernel and so within reach of tweaking. Has anybody got around this freeze up ? Additionally, has anybody attempted a firmward upgrade on this modem ? what has been your experience ? All observations, suggestions are very welcome. thanks Saifi.
