On 9/19/2004 17:45, Andrej Kristofic wrote: > Hi. > > After one week trying to get that green thing (Alcatal SpeedTouch USB) > to work I decided to ask for some external help. I've managed to > establish > connection and everything seems running just fine. But approx. once an > hour > the modem (or driver or something) locks up and connection is broken. > Actually, > I'm able to reproduce this lockup quite reliably by downloading one > specific > file from Internet. Logs don't give much info about this problem, > pppoe just > fails reading and times out waiting for PADO offer: > > pppoe[394]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Session 4552: Input/output error > pppoe[515]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets > > After this lockup I'm not able to reconnect and I'm forced to reload > usb module > and modem microcode to connect again. I'm using kernel driver for > SpeedTouch > together with RFC 2684 bridge (my provider supports PPPoE only) and > rp-pppoe. > > I tried to trace the packets in "frozen" state by using "pppoe -A" > command > (access concentrator discovery). The packets are comming through nas0 > interface > (RFC 2684 bridge) and they arrive to ATM AAL5 layer. Unfortunately, I > was not > able to find out whether they actually arrive to modem via USB. > > Well, anyone has an idea how to get rid of these lockups? > > Thanks for your help > > Andrej
Well, it took almost 2 months but things are now working as they should. Shortly: this problem was not caused by the drivers or modem itself but buggy host controller on the motherboard. The solution can be found in usb-users mailing list under subject "SOLVED: [Linux-usb-users] USB DSL modem; problem receiving data". Case closed (how I'm glad I can write this :) ), Andrej Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
