My guess is there is a delay when setting up the modem with AT commands, some sort of hardware interupt which hogs the system. I have no direct evidence or solution, however.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
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There is a problem with my 10.0.4 that is increasingly apparent. Whenever I click on the Connect button in the Internet Connect application (used to dial up a PPP connection), my superb ultrafine preemptive multitasking goes to hell. Everything freezes, nothing responds, only the mouse is moving (rather hopping from place to place). Force quit of course does not appear either if I press cmd-alt-esc. I even rebooted several times, thinking that my OS X simply froze. But if you wait long enough, eventually everything resumes, the Mac dials up the connection and everything is fine. The delay caused is not fixed a varies from time to time.
My guess is there is a delay when setting up the modem with AT commands, some sort of hardware interupt which hogs the system. I have no direct evidence or solution, however. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
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Me too...
I have a Desktop G3 450MHz with OS X 10.0.4 and have the same problem. We're not the only ones, though. I have seen this problem mentioned on one of the OS X mailing lists.
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I think it may be a sleep problem and related to "Locations" in OS X (which don't work very well.) Specifically, this situation will almost always (always?) cause the problem: if my 2000 iBook has been connected to the ethernet network at work (via location I call "Work") or in our lab (which is via Airport, location "Lab") and put the computer to sleep and go home and then at home I switch to my "Home" location and try to connect (which is via phone-line modem), this freeze thing happens.
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I don't think this has to do with Locations. I don't use them - that is, I have the default 'Automatic'
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Gee I thought I was the only one with this problem. I reported this to Apple and received back the response that this was a known problem...with the implication that it was being worked on. Personally I believe the modem driver is borked. I know for a fact that the USB and Zip Disk drivers don't work very well. As I recall Apple only recently finalized the Driver api's they released to developers....so driver writing has been a moving target up to and including 10.0.4. It seems reasonable that Apple would roll this fix in with undoubtedly a host of fixes in the 10.1 update in September.
Potential solution (please, don't laugh)...
OK guys, I think I may have a workaround (which may sound a bit naff, so feel free to deride me if you wish) to this problem, which has also been bugging the hell out of me (btw my record freeze is five and a half minutes -- agh!).
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i'm sorry, but as much as your knetic energy might want to make your superbly multitasking operating system actually multitask after clicking "Connect", thats not the answer.
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tried this, it didn't work for me
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OMG! ur solution worked! But how are the two of them connected (initializing Modem and Force Quit diag.box), i have no clue! Now i can leave my computer on for days without having to reboot it every 5 hours or so so that I don't have to wait a centry to initialize the modem.
Potential solution (please, don't laugh)...
Thank God you tried that!!!
PPP Monitor might help
I was having trouble from time to time using Apple's software so I switched to a third party application called PPPMonitor and all my problems went away. You might try it to see if it helps your problems. It's free and you can get it at the URL below:
Nope, PPP Monitor does it too...
Actually, I have had this creep up every since the Public Beta. I think it's hardware based, because I had a similar problem in OS 9. It never froze for so long in OS 9, but it did freeze.
Nope, PPP Monitor does it too...
same here, i notice the freeze in Mac OS 9 and even Linux. but its only for a second or less. In OS X its reduclous though (5+ mins!).
As of OS 10.1.1 .. still occuring
I am still seeing the same problem on OS 10.1.1. The freeze-ups can last for minutes indeed. I am on a Titanium Powerbook. It is a clean install of OS 10.1 from the CD.
As of OS 10.1.1 .. still occuring
I too have the same problem. It's maddening, and seems like it's getting worse! Last time mouse was totally frozen too.
10.1.2 and still happening
the dial-up bug is still occuring under 10.1.2 on titanium powerbook g4 400mhz. grmbl. does anyone out there know if apple is planning on fixing this?
Same here
Same stuff here, on a g3 pb firewire (stock). As far as I remember, it all starte when i upgraded to 10.1.2... (10.0 + various upgrades)
try 10.1.3
10.1.3 appears to have fixed it for me.
10.1.3 fixed it?
i installed the 10.1.3 upgrade and it appears to have fixed that issue. i'm now happily switching between active network ports, then connecting and disconnecting my ppp dial-up with no freeze. it doesn't appear to just be isolated dumb luck. i think they did fix it. Can anyone else confirm this?
10.1.3 still hasn't fixed it
I'm running first generation G4 350 and latest upgrade still hasn't fixed it. IS APPLE LISTENING....MAYBE WE GOTTA YELL A LITTLE LOUDER. |
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