From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 19:46: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.hosting4u.net (janus.hosting4u.net [209.15.2.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2997737BACD for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 19:45:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@friends-tv.net) Received: (qmail 4180 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 02:45:56 -0000 Received: from jupiter.hosting4u.net (HELO friends-tv.net) (209.15.2.9) by janus.hosting4u.net with SMTP; 11 May 2000 02:45:56 -0000 Received: from blade ([195.217.163.72]) by friends-tv.net ; Wed, 10 May 2000 21:45:53 -0500 Message-ID: <015401bfbaf3$6fba1ab0$0100a8c0@blade> From: "Andy Coates" To: "Alfred Perlstein" , "Jonathan Chen" Cc: References: <011e01bfbae8$07e6d2d0$0100a8c0@blade> <20000511134251.A1181@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> <20000510195712.S28180@fw.wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: Keeping the modem from dropping Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 03:48:40 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: "Andy Coates" ; Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 3:57 AM Subject: Re: Keeping the modem from dropping > * Jonathan Chen [000510 19:15] wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 02:27:09AM +0100, Andy Coates wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I remember a mate who runs linux saying he could compile into his kernel so > > > that if the modem was given the signal to drop by the ISP it would like > > > ignore it and stay connected. > > > > Really? How does it deal with the fact the ISP will have dropped > > carrier? Sounds like he's either got his facts wrong or he's talking > > about something else altogether. Yeah i couldn't figure that out, but the ISP banned his number because he was on too long :-) > He most likely is talking about the +++ATH0 problem with most newer > modems, there's a string to fix it that you can use as part of your > AT string to init the modem. Unfortunatly I don't remeber the > string offhand, it may be ATS2=255, but I'm unsure. > > Weird that it'd wind up in the Linux kernel. :) Isn't pppd part of the kernel in some respect? Maybe it was that, I can't exactly remember what he said. Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message