ibook ttyS0 (modem), and pppd problem, linux-2.2.17pre20ben2

[Halfmann, Klaus]

Conrad H Ziesler [mailto:cziesler at umich.edu] wrote:

> The first time i run pppd after reboot, everything works great.
>
> however, if the remote host abruptly hangs up, then all future pppd
> instances yield the following trace in syslog:
>
> Oct  7 18:35:15 mwatt pppd[7318]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
> Oct  7 18:35:19 mwatt pppd[7318]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Oct  7 18:35:19 mwatt pppd[7318]: Connect script failed
>
> that is, pppd aborts without ever running chat.
> nothing i seem to do fixes this except reboot.

I have just the same problem and help myself as follows:
I compiled macserial as a module. So when this problem
hits me I do a rmmod/insmod on macserial and everything
is fine again.

This problem appeard in all 2.2 kernels I had until now.
Of course this is a bug in the macserial driver
(and it may already be known) ...

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