Also, I remember Brett Bender once mentioning that he had a
problem somewhat like this which could be solved by power-cycling the
modem; unfortunately, his modem was internal so he could do that only be
rebooting. He'll be able to tell you if this was the same error he was
getting more than I will, though.
Matt
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rinendra Shakya wrote:
> Hello. Recently, I am having this problem with PPP. Half the time, when
> I try to dial out, the modem does not even dial. I am running RH6.0 with
> Window Maker. I get this error in /var/log/messages:
>
> ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200
> pppd[6772]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
> chat[6774]: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error
> pppd[6772]: Connect script failed
> pppd[6772]: Exit
>
> The routing table does not contain the ppp interface nor does
> /sbin/ifconfig show it. Only rebooting seems to solve the problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> rinendra
>
Matt