On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:41AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> I'm using a real umodem (not a mobile phone).  Somewhere along the
> line between 2.xx and 3.xx kernels, it stopped detecting/asserting
> carrier through to the tty and pppd when connected.  Chat would dial,
> establish a connection, and hand over to pppd - which would promptly
> drop the call because it decided there was no carrier.
> 
> Apart from that, though, it works. I have worked around the problem
> for the moment by telling pppd "local" instead of "modem", and haven't
> really gone back to investigate in more detail since.

I had to do that, too, but otherwise it worked.

	-is