I encountered a new problem with the PPP at noon and I was wondering
if anyone has a clue as to what causes this.
I connect as usual with ifup ppp0
the line goes dead for some reason and I let it try to connect
again after it's delay.
I try to load Netscape which bombs out. I look for a locked file,
no lock file. I try again, bombs out again.
I get out of X and delete the lock file which happened to be there
this time. I try to go back to X. I just get the starting screen, no
blue background. It just sit there. I kill it with ctrl alt backspace.
I call ifdown ppp0, line doesn't turn off.
I look in the log and see messages about the modem being locked.
I reboot and problem seems gone.
The PC has been on all night, last I rebooted was yesterday afternoon.
I have never had that problem with the 2.0.34 kernel or any other
2.0.xx kernel
System is Dell Precision with 486/DX and 24M or ram
running RedHat 5.1 with French setup.
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