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Re: PCMCIA burnout?



i shut down my card power (cardctl eject 1) when not in use, and shut down networking altogether because i don't use it, and have had recent success with keeping the modem up, but the jury's still out.  it was up last night all night with no freezes.  incidentally, restarting pcmcia (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) resets the modem when frozen (but all of windows locks up when it happens under windows 98, very ugly).  i don't get any hangups, so i assume that's something else for you (isp, phone lines, whatever).

nathanp


On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:29:14PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:00:44AM -0500, nathanp@iosphere.net wrote:
> > 
> > yeah, me too, same card.  i get:
> > 
> > No response to 4 echo-requests
> > Serial link appears to be disconnected.
> > Terminating on signal 15.
> > 
> > is this the same for you.  i thought it was noisy phone lines or
> > something, but if it's the modem, i'd really like to know.  i do not
> > live in a hot environment, however...
> > 
> 
> 
> Yeah, that's what I get some of the time.  Like just now I got:
> 
> 
> Feb 19 21:55:05 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x8 "Peer not
> respondi
> Feb 19 21:55:08 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x9 "Peer not
> respondi
> Feb 19 21:55:11 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0xa "Peer not
> respondi
> Feb 19 21:55:14 localhost pppd[375]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0xb "Peer not
> respondi
> Feb 19 21:55:17 localhost pppd[375]: Connection terminated. 
> Feb 19 21:55:17 localhost pppd[375]: Connect time 8.1 minutes. 
> Feb 19 21:55:17 localhost pppd[375]: Sent 106115 bytes, received 1329372
> bytes. 
> Feb 19 21:55:18 localhost pppd[375]: Exit. 
> 
> 
> But I also get other drop-outs.  Possible ordinary ones?  My neighbours were
> complaining they get lots of drop-outs too.  However the other time just now
> when the modem failed, the error was different, e.g.:
> 
> Feb 19 22:00:21 localhost pppd[1449]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <mrru 1506>] 
> Feb 19 22:00:21 localhost pppd[1449]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
> 0x0> <m
> Feb 19 22:00:42 localhost last message repeated 7 times 
> Feb 19 22:00:45 localhost pppd[1449]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
> Feb 19 22:00:45 localhost pppd[1449]: Connection terminated. 
> Feb 19 22:00:46 localhost pppd[1449]: Exit. 
> 
> or
> 
> Feb 19 21:58:13 localhost pppd[1098]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1
> magic=0x11456c48]
> Feb 19 21:58:34 localhost pppd[1098]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid
> 1109),
> Feb 19 21:58:43 localhost pppd[1098]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2
> magic=0x11456c48]
> Feb 19 21:59:11 localhost pppd[1098]: Hangup (SIGHUP) 
> Feb 19 21:59:11 localhost pppd[1098]: Modem hangup 
> 
> But sometimes the modem freezes up, sometimes it just shuts down cleanly.
> So it's hard to be conclusive about what the problem is.  It seems like when
> I get the timeouts and no response, that's when the modem freezes up.  The
> other times it gets a Hangup signal and shuts down normally, an ordinary
> phone line drop-out.  The key problem I've been noticing is the way the
> modem just freezes solid, rather than simply dropping a line.
> 
> What sort of warranty do we get on these Xircom modems? ;/
> 
> Drew
> 
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