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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] How to turn off soft carrier in case pppd does not exit gracefully
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:25:25 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, smithson_bonnie wrote:

> Hi all,
> I use ts7250 for dial out. After dialing out the connection is
> established and CD on the US Robotic turned on (CD is Carrier Detect
> and this signal indicates if a dial tone is present. This will be
> true when the modem is off hook and a dial tone is presents)
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>  If I kill the pppd process then pppd gracefully exits and CD on
> modem will turn off. (I believe because pppd send +++AT command to
> the modem and tells it to hang up the telephone line).
>
> If I turn off the TS7250 in the middle of dial out and pppd cannot
> graceful exits, then the modem stuck and I cannot dial out again
> after the ts7250 reset. The connect script will fail. In the log
> there is a message "cannot turn off soft carrier". Basically I
> cannot send any AT command to the modem anymore. I even use mgetty
> and mgetty.conf to set ATZ command to the modem, but it does not
> work.

you need to set the serial line to ignore modem control lines
use stty, and use the clocal option - see man page for stty.



> Our ts7250 is connecting to another system and that system controls
> the power supply to ts7250. The system can do power cycle anytime
> and it can happen in the middle of dial out (so pppd cannot
> gracefully exits). Unfortunately the modem and the system are not in
> the same power source and nobody is physically there to turn off the
> modem.
>
> I want to add a script on the startup of ts7250 to turn off CD on
> modem, but I do not know how. Someone had the same problem in Sun
> Solaris and their suggestion is  using the hardware carrier detect,
> /usr/etc/ttysoftcar -n /dev/ttyd0
> and reconfig the kernel change the zs0 flag to 2,1 or 0
>
> But we do not have ttysoftcar in our TS7250?
>
> Please help!
>
> Thank you so much for your time
> Bonnie
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