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On Monday 18 November 2013, Mick wrote: |
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> After more than a year I tried to tether my mobile to my laptop to connect |
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> to GPRS using kppp. I noticed that kppp hangs and I have to kill it, |
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> while it hangs with "Modem Ready". I can query the modem successfully |
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> using kppp, and it responds to ATI initialisation commands, so now I am |
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> trying to understand what is wrong with it and why the connection does not |
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> complete. |
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> ifconfig -a does not show rfcomm0, but this may be because it never |
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> completes the connection to my mobile phone provider's network, so the ppp |
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> link is not established. |
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> I can see that the rfcomm device is being created: |
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> # ls -la /dev/rfcomm* |
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> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 216, 0 Nov 17 15:51 /dev/rfcomm0 |
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> and it does try to connect until it freezes showing "Modem Ready", but I am |
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> getting no more errors to know what to do next. |
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> I was thinking that this may be related to the udev NIC renaming change |
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> that happened within the last year. However, I never had any udev rules |
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> to manage rfcomm and from what I recall vaguely when the udev update came, |
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> I had no problem connecting (but memory may be failing me after all this |
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> time). It could of course be related to my mobile phone providers |
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> settings - I haven't changed these for a long time and looking on the |
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> Internet I can't find if they are any different now. |
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> How should I troubleshoot this further? |
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> Could someone please hold my hand to set up ppp so that I can avoid kppp |
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> and its freezing behaviour? |
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Have you started the rfcomm service? I remember having trouble until I did |
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that. |
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HTH |
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Robin |
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Robin Atwood. |
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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