Suresh I ran a check on the net (google) and found the same message on several other lists even in the redhat support forum there was such a message and all the complaint was related to pppd getting disconnected due to error no 16 that from the man page of pppd says is modem hangup.
I started from base.. removed the usb-kernel, hotplug rpms, and some gphoto was and three instances of camera also depending on the hotplug was removed. again the pppd was compaining. I found this strange since I had two accounts one with the vsnl and other with dishnet. while all this hicups, vsnl used to connect, and hold for say some 30 minutes or so before dropping and reconnecting, but dishnet did not connect at all. This after a rigorous pondering, I pulled out a new hdd, and installed RedHat 7.1 on that.. used wvdial.conf from the RH 8.0 which was showing problems, and tried to connect to the dishnet... Lo!!! it connected and there was no problem for more than an hour after which I disconnected the modem. Now I mounted this Installation root into a location on RH 8.0 and ran a diff on both /etc/ppp The funny thing was that RH 7.1 had a pap-secrets file which was updated long after I had installed the package and this was having an entry for username-password but the same file in RH 8.0 did not have any entry atall.. I copied the pap-secrets from RH 7.1 to RH 8.0, unmounted the 7.1 installation and tested the wvdial. It connects! summary -- (my findings) the wvdial of rh7.1 used to update the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, where as that of RH 8.0 did not (or could not) I did not check that possibility if there is one. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So why are you trying to start pppd along with the hotplug service? > > Redhat seems to somehow think you have a usb modem. > I am not sure why RedHat thinks that way... I always try to avoid these devices since I cannot afford for a machine which provides one ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
