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[217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a19sm25787770wib.1.2013.11.23.04.35.52 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 23 Nov 2013 04:35:53 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rfcomm0 interface missing Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:35:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.10.17-gentoo; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201311171846.50544.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201311231844.59083.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <201311231844.59083.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1389850.hxi1FeKuCd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201311231235.49097.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 218acdea-2eb8-41b4-8fb6-53f49996c2b5 X-Archives-Hash: a708556f6723065906986a65c24a2b80 --nextPart1389850.hxi1FeKuCd Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 23 Nov 2013 11:44:58 Robin Atwood wrote: > On Monday 18 November 2013, Mick wrote: > > After more than a year I tried to tether my mobile to my laptop to > > connect to GPRS using kppp. I noticed that kppp hangs and I have to > > kill it, while it hangs with "Modem Ready". I can query the modem > > successfully using kppp, and it responds to ATI initialisation commands, > > so now I am trying to understand what is wrong with it and why the > > connection does not complete. > >=20 > > ifconfig -a does not show rfcomm0, but this may be because it never > > completes the connection to my mobile phone provider's network, so the > > ppp link is not established. > >=20 > > I can see that the rfcomm device is being created: > >=20 > > # ls -la /dev/rfcomm* > > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 216, 0 Nov 17 15:51 /dev/rfcomm0 > >=20 > > and it does try to connect until it freezes showing "Modem Ready", but I > > am getting no more errors to know what to do next. > >=20 > > I was thinking that this may be related to the udev NIC renaming change > > that happened within the last year. However, I never had any udev rules > > to manage rfcomm and from what I recall vaguely when the udev update > > came, I had no problem connecting (but memory may be failing me after > > all this time). It could of course be related to my mobile phone > > providers settings - I haven't changed these for a long time and looking > > on the Internet I can't find if they are any different now. > >=20 > > How should I troubleshoot this further? > >=20 > > Could someone please hold my hand to set up ppp so that I can avoid kppp > > and its freezing behaviour? >=20 > Have you started the rfcomm service? I remember having trouble until I did > that. Thanks Robin, yes I started bluetooth and rfcomm as I used to do. I wonder= if=20 this is an ISP problem, i.e. they are no longer offering GPRS on this mobil= e=20 phone account, or if I need a different login. I'll try again later to see= if=20 this is a temporary fault when I get a minute.=20 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1389850.hxi1FeKuCd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJSkKElAAoJELAdA+zwE4Ye/O8H/0pFG4Fpk9BqMryjL1OaGMGf AcuKnqFdFZd9Pt1rcnZqshFr2dLyWhsJevLpcnRVdZWN3Jdz1XFYQtuX3wbYoTvj ounJYcxoKQc3auJYhxzTGVsGPy22lgIcopG1RP8ClNMYvdGflTiQ9eEVfCbcIYZf E88p/RaFYWYhKrpJI3mTyibLBVOchW447yoanzbkRpw6M0OJrgrRo1UtlhlwPqN1 JqSNjLFo5Gjqh7arKf29yJHxF/++v0ZWyIFblRJS586UQJvEwep0j+0AfI7X6SPf DxEmeYW6QSHzCb52sUBAlIQs4ukQGNPnf/Aqfv6TIa7q/OQRYqOX0ADWDTl8F+Q= =3luO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1389850.hxi1FeKuCd--