I had a similar problem when I upgraded to kernel 2.2.4 With the old kernel (2.0.36) I had to (at boot time) set my UART to my modem to 16550 rather than 16550A, because for some reason if it was at 16550A it ran REALLY slow. But it worked great at 16550. When I got the new kernel, I could not connect via ppp. And after a week of hair pulling I decided to try UART 16550A, and with the new kernel it now works fine! This may not be relevant to your problems, but it might help. Try using different UARTs. To set different UARTs use 'setserial /dev/modem UART xxxxx' -- if you find that this fixes the problem, edit your /sbin/init.d/boot.local file and add the setserial line to it. Or you can edit /sbin/init.d/serial and add the line at the bottom as well, both methods with set your modem to the proper setting at boot time. For my modem I also use the spd_vhi flag to set my modem to use the fastest settings. My line in /sbin/init.d/boot.local is: 'setserial /dev/modem IRQ 10 UART 16550A spd_vhi' . Good luck! Later, Ryan |ceman Alexander Daniloff wrote:

Dear Sir:

Thank you for your response on my problem. I checked all files you told me about However there is nothing found wrong in /var/log/messages and -ipx-protocol in /etc/ppp/options was already disabled by default. Could you tell me please what can be wrong in general setting or just new kernels 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 too buggy? My old kernel 2.0.36 works just fine with kppp with the same setting but new kernels don't. The same deal as Expecting OK infinitely.

Thank you

Alex

At 09:30 PM 3/30/99 , you wrote:

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Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 11:12 +0100, alex@daniloff.com wrote:

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I got a strange problem with 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 kernels. When I use kppp with my old 2.0.36 kernel my USR modem is dialing up and establishing connection without any problem. When I'm rebooting with the 2.2.4 or 2.2.5 kernel my modem gets initialize and does it infinetely. In the terminal window I can only see ATZ and Expecting OK. That's it. I tried to test my modem with minicom. Modem dials connection without a problem, but after drops connection by itself. I compiled PPP PLIP and SLIP supports in the both new kernels. I did'n change setting or any parameter in /etc/rc.config, /etc/resolve.config, /etc/suseppp and so on. Could somebody please point me on what is a problem? I'm fighting with it almost a week. Please help me

Are there any error messages in /var/log/messages? Also check /etc/ppp/options for an `-ipx-protocol'. If it's in there, remove it.

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