If you only kill pppd (with its pppoa slaves) you do not release the usb bus. You need to kill or cause modem_run to exit cleanly. If you search the mailing list archive you will find several example kill scripts have been discussed that are quite sure to kill everything properly.
Alex. On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 18:54, jeremy wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a Linux newbie and I found the How-To extremely helpful (and much easier > than the other How-Tos), however I am not sure how to properly disconnect. > Currently I use the command "killall pppd" but this apparently doesn't close > it fully because when I shut down my computer it gets stuck when unmounting > the file system. This only happens after I have been online so I'm sure > that's where the problem is. I think the problem is that the firmware is > still loaded. So my question is: what is the proper way to completely > shut it down and unload the firmware? In case it matters, I'm using Mandrake > 8.0 and BASH. > > > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB > Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
