[Server-devel] wvdial woes

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:36:38PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> The USB modem works fine at long as my wired network is disconnected. As 
> soon as I connect the WRT54GL, the something is running ifdown/ifup on 
> ppp about every 5 seconds. When I disconnect the wired network, things 
> return to normal (ppp stays up). eth0 has a static address. dhcp is 
> running on eth0 to assign an address to the WRT54GL.

Is this a network-manager problem?

The crappy modem I have cannot be started automatically. It is necessary 
to poweroff (disconnect) the device and reconnect it before starting 
wvdial.