PCMCIA problems with slink
>> I posted it as a reply but it wasn't... HELP PLEASE!
Hello, I'm experiencing a strange problem with my PCMCIA modem.
I installed Slink on my Mitac 6133, so I had 2.0.36 kernel and 3.0.5 pcmcia package installed automatically.
All worked fine, except that when I try to send an email with an attachmente bigger than 10K, the connection
stops. This happens also when I try to make a put on a FTP session, so i think the problem it's not related
to the mail configuration (I use smail configured for a ppp dial-up connection, with a smart-host, and
fetchmail to retrieve mail on my machine).
I'm able to get connection:
Feb 6 14:51:08 beck pppd[326]: local IP address 212.216.132.232
Feb 6 14:51:08 beck pppd[326]: remote IP address 151.99.113.30
Feb 6 14:51:08 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [CCP ConfRej id=0x2]
Feb 6 14:51:38 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:51:38 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x0]
Feb 6 14:52:08 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:52:08 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x0]
Feb 6 14:52:38 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:52:38 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0x0]
Feb 6 14:53:08 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:53:08 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 magic=0x0]
Feb 6 14:53:38 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x5 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:53:38 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x5 magic=0x0]
Feb 6 14:54:08 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x6 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:54:08 beck pppd[326]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x6 magic=0x0]
But when I try to send something quite big, it stops like this (look at the time I wait for an ack...):
Feb 6 14:54:38 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x7 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Feb 6 14:55:08 beck pppd[326]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x8 magic=0x6a51a1da]
Then the connection it's stopped by pppd that doesn't receive the ack.
So I decided to install the new pcmcia package, along with 2.2.12 kernel. I downloaded the frozen
pcmcia-package pcmcia_source_3.1.8-5.deb, i configured the kernel, then i executed this 3 commands:
/usr/src/linux:
make-kpkg --revision 06.02.2000 kernel_image
make-kpkg --revision 06.02.2000 modules_image
/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/:
debian/rules binary-cs
I installed the kernel, then the pcmcia-modules and then the binary-cs package, and I rebooted the
system.
Now, with 2.2.12 I have this error message:
Feb 6 15:03:42 beck pppd[349]: pppd 2.3.5 started by andrea, uid 1001
Feb 6 15:03:42 beck pppd[349]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
Feb 6 15:03:43 beck pppd[349]: Exit.
With 2.0.36 I'm able to connect, but I have the same problem as before, I can't send stuff bigger than
10k if I want the connection to stay alive.
Any help or suggestion would be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Andrea Ceccanti.
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