[Gllug] ADSL Woes

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Alain Williams wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have an ADSL line, connecting via a USB alcatel modem (the blue manta-ray ones).
>I spend a lot of time away, and ssh back into my box.
>
>Sometimes the line dies, fault in the BT network/ISP problem/...
>Once the fault has cleared, it is easy to restart by unplugging (USB) the modem for
>a few seconds and reloading the ppp, etc, s/ware.
>
>The trouble with that is that I need to be there to unplug & plug it back in. I have
>not been able to reload from the command line -- and so write a adsl-watcher script.
>
>I am running a recent 2.4 kernel with the open source Benoit (?) driver, but would be
>happy to change if needed.
>
>Has anyone got any perls of wisdome for me ?

ADSL modem/routers have dropped below £50 at the fairs. Cast off that USB 
based rubbish.

Christian

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