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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp -background does not hangup
Date: 30 Apr 1997 10:27:59 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <E9FL41.Jsr@nonexistent.com>,
"Jim Carroll" <jim@carroll.com> writes:
>
> I have been working with the ij-ppp program for the better part of two
> days, and cannot seem to get it to hangup.
>
> I have tracked my problem down to the module modem.c, the function
> ModemTimeout(). It appears that the mbits returned from the function call
>
> ioctl(modem, TIOCMGET, &mbits)
>
> always returns with the bit TIOCM_CD bit set indicating we are still
> online. I have forcibly dropped the line (from the other side of the
> connection), but the ioctl call continues to report we are online.
So your modem isn't reporting CD properly.
> I am at a loss to track down the code any further. I have spent some time
> in the serial device driver (sio.c), but haven't had the time to really
> take it apart. Could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> I would very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
I suspect it's a modem configuration problem. Have a look in your
manual for those silly settings that are necessary to get broken
software to work - and remove them. If you've got a USR for
example, the default hardware handshake profile works fine.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !