(This thread has become more a monologue than a conversation, but I am posting all my progress for the sake of documentation. Hope someone will find it really easy to set up a WWAN card after reading this.)
On EV-DO areas, my connection was not very stable, and eventually it would stall or disconnect. Today I found something interesting in my /var/adm/messages: Dec 14 09:39:24 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 860527 daemon.notice] pppd 2.4.0b1 (Sun Microsystems, Inc., Aug 17 2006 01:26:01) started by datique, uid 0 Dec 14 09:39:27 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Connect: sppp0 <--> /dev/term/0 Dec 14 09:39:31 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] local IP address 189.0.78.193 Dec 14 09:39:31 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] remote IP address 200.142.132.199 Dec 14 09:39:31 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] primary DNS address 200.142.130.8 Dec 14 09:39:31 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] secondary DNS address 200.142.130.11 Dec 14 09:39:46 deepblue spppasyn: [ID 268290 kern.notice] sppp0: bad fcs (len=604) Dec 14 09:39:46 deepblue spppasyn: [ID 268290 kern.notice] sppp0: bad fcs (len=972) Dec 14 09:39:46 deepblue spppasyn: [ID 268290 kern.notice] sppp0: bad fcs (len=730) Dec 14 09:45:13 deepblue spppasyn: [ID 268290 kern.notice] sppp0: bad fcs (len=1210) Dec 14 09:58:42 deepblue spppasyn: [ID 268290 kern.notice] sppp0: bad fcs (len=220) Dec 14 09:59:21 deepblue spppasyn: [ID 268290 kern.notice] sppp0: bad fcs (len=31) Dec 14 10:02:51 deepblue ip: [ID 646971 kern.notice] ip_create_dl: hw addr length = 0 Dec 14 10:02:51 deepblue last message repeated 1 time Dec 14 10:02:51 deepblue in.routed[144]: [ID 238047 daemon.warning] interface sppp0 to 200.142.132.199 turned off Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue in.routed[144]: [ID 417587 daemon.error] IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP ALLHOSTS: Address already in use Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue in.routed[144]: [ID 537788 daemon.warning] Could not join 224.0.0.9 on interface sppp0: Address already in use Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue ip: [ID 646971 kern.notice] ip_create_dl: hw addr length = 0 Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue last message repeated 1 time Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue in.routed[144]: [ID 238047 daemon.warning] interface sppp0 to 200.142.132.204 turned off Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] unable to set IP to pass: Invalid argument Dec 14 10:02:55 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] unable to set IP to error: Invalid argument Dec 14 10:02:56 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Connection terminated. Dec 14 10:03:43 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Connect script failed Dec 14 10:09:13 deepblue last message repeated 7 times Dec 14 10:10:00 deepblue pppd[2885]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Connect script failed Dec 14 10:10:47 deepblue last message repeated 1 time This looks like an attempt by in.routed to perform its routing algorithms through my EVDO connection and seems to be leading to the disconnections. I have tried to touch /etc/notrouter to see if the connection stops breaking. However, I am thinking now how I will be able to share my Internet connection with a second notebook (through my Ethernet adapter, that is). As usual, I welcome suggestions and hints about it. -- Douglas This message posted from opensolaris.org
