Topic: diald problem, is it just plain too old?

[Roald Opsahl]

There have been several postings refering to this error message in the log:

kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality?

More important than the message, diald does not dial after this happens. I belive this is caused by diald beeing unaware that the modem is on hook. This could be caused by a bad configuration, either of software or modem (should one use &c1 &d2?) but more likely that diald in some situations fails to receive signals when the modem goes on-hook, a result of changes in the 2.2.5.-xx kernels and/or pppd. For some of us this is fun to know, but we all really just want the thing to work.

I wonder if the next e-smith will have a newer diald, my current (e-smith 3.x) is using diald-0.16. Rather old in the opinion of Mike Jagdis:

"Incidentally diald 0.16 is *ancient*. Distributors should, at least, be using 0.16.5 which Eric released a long time ago. Since then I've taken over diald and newer (current 0.99) versions are available from http://diald.unix.ch."

I haven't been able to connect to that site, and have written Mike about this. If I receive a reply, or find something else I will report back here. On the other hand, if e-smith 4.x is scheduled to include a recent diald the problem might solve itself.

[Charlie Brady]

Roald Opsahl wrote:

> I wonder if the next e-smith will have a newer diald, my
> current (e-smith 3.x) is using diald-0.16. Rather old in the
> opinion of Mike Jagdis:
>
> "Incidentally diald 0.16 is *ancient*. Distributors
> should, at least, be using 0.16.5 which Eric released a long
> time ago. Since then I've taken over diald and newer (current
> 0.99) versions are available from http://diald.unix.ch.....

If you have a look under the "dev" directory at the e-smith ftp site you will see that the e-smith 4.0 beta uses rev 0.99.3 of diald.

Charlie

[Colin Mattoon]

However, the problem Roald reports with E-smith 3.x has never appeared on my home system...and we routinely "force" a disconnect by pulling the phone plug out of the jack. Never experienced a problem getting a quick redial after reconnection.

I am using a stock e-smith 3.0