Bug 91103

Summary: ppp-watch fails, cannot update hcfpcimodem, trouble with i18n
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Cyrille Bollu <cyrille.bollu>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Cyrille Bollu 2003-05-18 14:57:37 UTC
Description of problem:
Hi,

from today on, /sbin/ifup cannot connect my computer to the internet anymore. I 
have a conexant HCF modem and I'm using initscripts-7.14-1.
Usually when I have this kind of problem I re-install the hcfpcimodem drivers 
but now I even cannot re-install them anymore (That's why I think it has 
something to do with i18n. see later). Now, I have to use W98/IE5.0 to be able 
to connect to the internet.

The story begans like this:
I issued the command "/sbin/ifup ppp0", but it echo "Failed to activate ppp0 
with error 7". After investigation, I could find that this message is thrown 
from ppp-watch.

As usual when I have this kind of problem with my modem, I tried to re-install 
the hcfpcimodem drivers but this time it simply hangs while executing a gawk 
command.

Why I think it's related to i18n?  It's because I updated the 
file /etc/sysconfig/i18n last days trying to solve some problems with french 
characters at boot-time... And because of the gawk problem above.

At last, I restored the original i18n file but it did'nt do the trick.

Could you help me?

PS: By the way, I succeded with the french characters at boot-time problem by 
using locales fr_FR.utf8 and font lat9w (something like that). But I still got 
a problem with a directory called "Stéphanie" on my shared FAT32 partition. 
Could you do something for that also?

Waiting to read from you,

Cyrille

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.14-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(here's what I did to encounter the problem as I remember)
1. update your i18n files with locale "fr_FR.utf8" and font lat9w.
2. restart your computer/shutdon your computer/restart your computer.
3. change some settings in your modem settings.
4. restart your computer.
5. /sbin/ifup ppp0
    
Actual results:
"Failed to activate ppp0 with error 7"

Expected results:
connect to the internet.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-05-19 01:21:27 UTC
Does it behave any better if you use 'fr_FR.UTF-8'? It shouldn't, but...

Error 7 does mean that it can't open the serial port, which usually does
indicate a driver problem.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2003-09-04 00:14:27 UTC
You might try reinstalling the hcimodem drivers with no locale set, run:

export LANG=C

before installing.

Aside from that, the 'Error 7' does imply a driver problem; that really can't be
solved in initscripts.