Bug 78984 - pppd + laptop with only USB port + Nokia 6210 does not work
Summary: pppd + laptop with only USB port + Nokia 6210 does not work
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ppp
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL: n/a
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 70200 78958 78961 78962 79070
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-04 11:16 UTC by MIchael Kolmodin
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:02 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-08-16 16:14:21 UTC
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Description MIchael Kolmodin 2002-12-04 11:16:15 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Description of problem:
This is a meta bug covering the difficulties to connect a laptop with a
USB-connected serial port through a Nokia phone to an ISP

Current work-around is a kermit script which connects and then enters 
transparent mode. This script is fed as pty argument to pppd. Far from
elegant, but I havn't found any other solution so far. There are numerous
ppp-up. ppp-down, and /sbin/ifup-pre-local scripts involved to get it running.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RH 7.2, kernel update 2.4.18-17.8.7x

Dependencies:
bug 70200:  ifdown-post removes ppp peers' config
bug 78958:  lcp-echo* options blocks pppd from connecting
bug 78961:  Wvdial does not handle baud rate recognition?
bug 78962:  USB serial driver doesn't support DCD/DSR/DTS

In short: 78962 is the very root. If the driver supported hardware signals, a
normal chat script could be used, no lcp-echo* would be required and no peer
configuration would be needed.

Even if 78962 is not solved, solving 78961 would make the use of peer
configurations obsolete. In this scenario, I can live with 78962 for a while.

Comment 1 MIchael Kolmodin 2002-12-04 11:19:30 UTC
Adding formal dependencies

Comment 2 MIchael Kolmodin 2002-12-05 11:33:28 UTC
Adding 79070 dependency after splitting 79062 into two bugs; this is the new one.

Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2004-08-16 16:14:21 UTC
Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or
Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs.

Closing as "not a bug" for now.


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