MegaZone wrote:
>> It means we stopped seeing carrier - end of story.
>> *WHY* we stopped seeing carrier you'll have to find out yourself, the PM
>> can only report what it sees. We saw carrier go away, so we reported it.
> Now someone needs to develop smart(er) modems that can report their
> status (connected at 26400", "retraining to xxx bps", "lost carrier due
> to retraining too low", "lost carrier due to line noise", etc.) to the
> serial port via a "status" message sent via a specific serial port pin pair
> (so the Portmaster could pick up the message and report it via syslog etc).
> Good/Bad idea?
Something along those lines would be very helpful.
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