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December 18th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Great!
What if the connection *is* established but after a while it drops…?
And I can\’t even dial back out again - won\’t work. But will connect again everytime I reboot…
It gets even better!
If I just reboot the connection is up for 3 to 5 minutes.
BUT… If I use the Startup Manager in Ubuntu before I reboot… It will last from half an hour to several hours!
Still think it\’s a cable issue in my case…?
Which I had checked in the same frentic despair you portrayed above…
December 18th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
It still looks like a connectivity (read LAN / cabling) issue. Linux is pretty stable in ADSL connectivity.
May 25th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
The question is, why is the pppd daemon exiting instead of retrying until it gets a connection… What i get here is 10 PADO timeout and an exit. After that you have to go to the machine, that’s the wrong aproach, pppd should never exit!