Re: Help: pppd broken in Testing
> Now I'm away I cannot connect. The modem connects ok but then
> pppd terminates:-
> Serial connection established
> transfer_ppp failed: wanted unit 0, got 1
> Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Exit
> Can anyone tell me what is wrong?
I can't tell you what's wrong, but I had the same problem, and worked
around it by disabling demand-dialing mode: comment out the line in
/etc/ppp/peers/provider that says `demand', by changing it to `#demand'.
This means that ppp will connect immediately, and stay connected instead
of waiting until you try to access the net. If you don't use
demand-dialing mode, then I'm not sure what you can do...
[it's a good thing that there's this work-around, since otherwise I
wouldn't be able to download any fixed version!]
The bug seems to have crept in in the most recent version, btw, as it
exists in 2.4.1-2, but not 2.4.1-1.
-Miles
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
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