Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> 
> Well, I switched back to pppd 2.3.0b5, but the result was the same...
> 
> Sep 30 18:39:36 acheron pppd[1330]: pppd 2.3.0b5 started by mason, uid 0
> Sep 30 18:39:40 acheron pppd[1330]: Serial connection established.
> Sep 30 18:39:41 acheron pppd[1330]: Using interface ppp0
> Sep 30 18:39:41 acheron pppd[1330]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty01
> Sep 30 18:39:41 acheron pppd[1330]: Serial line is looped back.
> Sep 30 18:39:42 acheron pppd[1330]: Connection terminated.
> Sep 30 18:39:45 acheron pppd[1330]: Terminating on signal 15.
> Sep 30 18:39:45 acheron pppd[1330]: disconnect script failed
> Sep 30 18:39:46 acheron pppd[1330]: Exit.
> 
> This would seem to imply that something else has changed. Anyway, I'm going
> to try to figure out what's up, but I'm beyond my depth here, for the
> moment, anyway.

Well, I don't know about why your old pppd is not working for you, but
there is a small problem with the new version.  It doesn't set clocal
while running the chat script, so the chat script doesn't get run
properly.  The above might be the result of your needing to turn the modem
off and back on again (this usually fixes the "Serial line is looped back"
error message for me).

BTW, if you are going to be running/following -current, you should
subscribe to the current-users mailing list.  Then you'll know when this
kind of thing happens :-)  It's been discussed there for about a week.

I hope this helps some.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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