Weird modem behavior.
Hello,
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Hello,
Since a few days, I have been experiencing a strange modem behavior. I am running lenny and I connect to the internet with an external Robotics dial up modem. I have never had problem with this modem before but since a few days the modem got erratic, it randomly disconnects and when I reconnect it goes to nowhere. This puzzled me and I discovered a lock file in the var/lock directory. The name of the file is Lck...ttyS0. I had to delete the this file, to be able to reconnect again. But sometimes it works without deleting this file. Other times not. Strange; there are times when I can surf half an hour without problem then suddenly I get disconnected. The lock file it seems appear when I reconnect. I do not understand what's going on here. I have never had this problem before. I would appreciate if someone who understand the problem could advise me how to proceed with the solution.
Thanks alot.
jmak
Here is my dmesg output.
mak@debian:~$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.21-2-486 (Debian 2.6.21-6) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070629 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-13)) #1 Wed Jul 11 03:17:09 UTC 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize end
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000001fef0000 end: 000000001fff0000 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000001fff0000 size: 0000000000008000 end: 000000001fff8000 type: 3
copy_e820_map() start: 000000001fff8000 size: 0000000000008000 end: 0000000020000000 type: 4
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fffc0000 size: 0000000000040000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 131056) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 131056
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 131056
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 991 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 125969 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000FC390, 0014 (r0 AMI )
ACPI: RSDT 1FFF0000, 0028 (r1 AMIINT AMIINT10 1000 MSFT 100000B)
ACPI: FACP 1FFF0030, 0074 (r1 AMIINT AMIINT10 1000 MSFT 100000B)
ACPI: DSDT 1FFF00B0, 2D2C (r1 SiS 730S 100 MSFT 100000B)
ACPI: FACS 1FFF8000, 0040
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x5008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dffc0000)
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 130033
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb2 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01402000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 896.690 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 510936k/524224k available (1629k kernel code, 12728k reserved, 645k data, 300k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfffb6000 - 0xfffff000 ( 292 kB)
vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xfffb4000 ( 503 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfff0000 ( 511 MB)
.init : 0xc033c000 - 0xc0387000 ( 300 kB)
.data : 0xc0297565 - 0xc0338cf4 ( 645 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0297565 (1629 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1794.49 BogoMIPS (lpj=3588995)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 1820)
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: b000-bfff
MEM window: cde00000-cfefffff
PREFETCH window: bdb00000-cdcfffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...<6>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
it is
Freeing initrd memory: 5363k freed
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1191531476.140:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 300k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS730 ATA 100 (1st gen) controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
sis900.c: v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
hda: WDC WD400JB-00ETA0, ATA DISK drive
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
hdb: ST340014A, ATA DISK drive
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8523B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
SCSI subsystem initialized
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.1[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
0000:00:01.1: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
0000:00:01.1: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:d0:09:fa:61:0f.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 12
PCI: setting IRQ 12 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 12, io mem 0xcfffc000
libata version 2.20 loaded.
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: irq 12, io mem 0xcfffd000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > hda4
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
hdb: max request size: 512KiB
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 >
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:01.3-1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Attempting manual resume
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected SiS 730 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.4[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0x800f)
gameport: Trident 4DWave is pci0000:00:01.4/gameport0, speed 2130kHz
ac97 codec read TIMEOUT [0x5a/0x800fc05a]!!!
ac97 codec read TIMEOUT [0x54/0x800fc0d4]!!!
Adding 465844k swap on /dev/hdb6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:465844k
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWBX]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
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