On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2004-08-26 at 16:21 -0400, Andre Nuendel wrote:
pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATM1 pppd[0]: ATM1 pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Modem initialized. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT12674604014 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: ATDT12674604014 pppd[0]: BUSY pppd[0]: --> The line is busy. Trying again.
It should hang up first, ie, send 'ath', I think :-? Did you notice if the modem did hang at this point?
The modem hangs up - at least that what I think it does. The busy signal stops and the LED turns off.
pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT12674604014 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: ATDT12674604014
-and then it hangs forever without doing anything.
However, when I su to root and use WvDial by hand (after putting the phone #, username and password into /ect/wvdial.conf) it actually does the redialing.
Strange. Have you compared the output text on both cases?
What do you mean with output text?
Here is what the /var/log/messages says:
1. dialing by hand (cycles through until it gets a free line):
Aug 26 18:55:06 erle pppd[9551]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
Aug 26 18:55:06 erle pppd[9551]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Aug 26 18:55:06 erle pppd[9551]: Removed stale lock on ttyS0 (pid 9518)
Aug 26 18:55:19 erle pppd[9551]: Terminating on signal 15.
Aug 26 18:55:22 erle pppd[9551]: Serial connection established.
Aug 26 18:55:22 erle pppd[9551]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 26 18:55:22 erle pppd[9551]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
2. Kinternet dialing:
Aug 26 20:24:41 erle pppd[12489]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
Aug 26 20:24:41 erle pppd[12489]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Aug 26 20:24:41 erle pppd[12489]: Removed stale lock on ttyS0 (pid 12456)
!!!