Just so you know, I'm thinking that maybe the ppp session is being routed over the wifi causing the host to be unreachable. You think this may be a plausable scenario?
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking down the same lines... Actually got a log from him just > now, here's a link. > > http://pastebin.com/9F74rHHh > > Don't fully understand it all, but I get the jist of it. My question > for those who may have more experience with PPP on linux is I see that > it's showing pppd as getting signal 15 (sigterm), then it's showing an > error. Is it getting sigterm because of the error, or the error > because of the sigterm? If it's getting sigterm because of the error > was a bit thrown off because it's showing out of order, but I've seen > this behavior in logging before. > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:11 PM, The Donald Cowart <[email protected]> > wrote: >> So with very few details, I would first eliminate networking issues, >> b/c I would think something could be happening like the ppp connection >> is coming up but it has the same IP range as the wifi connection and >> so traffic is not going out the ppp interface but the wifi interface. >> >> That's just a first guess though, without more info I couldn't say more. >> >> --Donald >> >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm trying to help a guy who's making a custom rom for the galaxy >>> prevail. He's been fighting for almost 6 months on a bug that's >>> driving him nuts, wanted to know if anyone here might be able to help. >>> >>> The short of it is, you can send MMS messages just fine, unless wifi is >>> enabled. >>> >>> The reason for this is when sending an MMS message, the phone has to >>> establish a PPP connection (I'm guessing something like /dev/ppp0 I >>> really haven't used ppp on linux), then terminate it once the send is >>> complete. If the wireless is enabled the PPP session fails. >>> >>> Could this be something simple? Any insight at all? >>> >>> Will be glad to get further details if needed. So far I have >>> recommended to try seeing about pausing or puttng the wifi on standby >>> then sending and see if it will work but I'm not sure if you can do >>> anything beyond bringing the interface up/down. Of course, bringing it >>> down, then sending would work... but not the ideal solution. I also >>> recommended he check over all the parameters of his PPP connection, >>> like if it requires a username/pass for authentication, make sure it's >>> correct. Beyond that I'm kinda stumped unless he gives me logs or >>> something that will give more details. >>> >>> Anyway, thanks in advance for reading this... and hopefully taking a >>> moment to reply :D >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >>> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >>> Unsubscribe [email protected] >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Donald Cowart >> http://www.rdex.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
