Several strange problems (modem, ppp, and xconsole)

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I am running RedHat 4.0/Linux 2.0.23 on a Multia.

Doing an `echo "at&f" > /dev/modem` locks up my console (mouse, video,
keyboard...all unresponsive). I don't know if this locks the system
up (I don't have a terminal currently connected to the machine, nor is
it on a network).

When I deactivate PPP from the Network Configurator, it doesn't kill
the PPP process. When I kill the PPP process, I have to hang up the
phone by hand (I just shut the modem off). I'd much rather PPP
cleanly shut down and hung up the phone.

(As a suggestion to the RedHat guys, can you include diald in the next
release of RedHat? It starts (and stops) PPP on demand. Very nifty
piece of software.)

I currently have everything possible logged to /dev/console (the
syslog.conf entry reads "*.* /dev/console"). This allows me to watch
call progress for PPP from X with xconsole (I use xdm(1X)). However,
once PPP makes the connection and displays its little "local IP: xxx,
remote IP: xxx" message, xconsole dies with a "Bad Drawable" error (or
some such). I assume that it's a problem with the X server
(Xtga-EV5-test) and that upgrading to XFree86 3.2 will eliminate the
problem.

Has anyone had similar experiences and figured out what was wrong?

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