Re: USB "safely remove hardware" causes my USB modem to reset

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> I wonder if this crash condition doesn't have something to do with
> Windows not allowing an active Networking device to be removed ?
> How does the ADSL modem appear in Networking Connections,
> as just a simple LAC (Local Area Connection) ? or as a Gateway
> device.

Well, its not exactly a crash - the machine continues working, and the modem
resets, redials and immediately reconnects.
The modem appears as a dial-up connection in the Network Connections control
panel. Also, regarding it not being allowed to be removed, I'm not removing
it, I just click on the safely remove hardware icon. In fact I only noticed
this problem because I was using a USB pen drive (on a different hub - all my
USB hubs appear to have 2 connections) and when I removed that (using the
safely remove hardware icon) my ADSL connection dropped. It took me a while
to realise that this was the cause, because I didn't have automatic reconnect
setup at that time, and so I only realised when I tried to access something
like email or the web, and it asked to reconnect. Now I have auto-reconnect
on, I can see the reset and redial occur immediately.
.

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