[ltp] strange locking up thanks to the modem..

Mike Johnson linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:18:04 +0100


On Wednesday 14 November 2001 16:50, you wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:13:05AM +0100, Mike Johnson wrote:
> > I have an A20p and although the latest Lucent drivers load perfectly
> > my machine crashes hard every time I try to dial out. Thankfully I have
> > all my file systems on ext3 so no long waits to fsck after.
> >
> > Does anyone on the list have the Lucent modem working fine?
>
> Well, I haven't had a crash yet with it, but I don't use it regularly, have
> only used it a few times to check to make sure it works, because I have
> cable modem here at home and ethernet at work.  But it hasn't crashed in
> the three or four times I dialed out.  I'm using ltmodem6.00b6 (I think) on
> a thinkpad X21.  My kernel is 2.4.15pre1.

Maybe there is my problem, I'm using 6.00b4. I'll see if I can find a newer
version that matches up with my Mandrake kernel and give that a try.
(Too busy at the moment to change to a stock kernel.)

Mike.


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