Richard, i had detected some board-level problems on the port I was using the dongle, so after changing the port the error didn't appear again. But the minute lag after "CONNECT 3600000" still remained as pppd was starting on timeout ("hoping best") instead of on a prompt signal....

Hi friends, Queer thing with my Huawei E1550 dongle: upcomes good, dialups with small lag, but every second (even if not in connection) spams the message log with user.err kernel: option: option_instat_callback: error -71 I have found similar problem here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/...