Connection status indicator shows online even when disconnected.

[ankan]

Hi

The problem is that the connection status (Dial Up Networking) keeps showing that a connection is there even when actually I've been disconnected.
Thus whenever the pages do not come up either due to high traffic (and thus taking sometime) or because the connection's not there anymore, I do not have any option but to manually disconnect and redial (because I have no way to know whether I am really connected or not).:-(
What do I do to make sure that the indicator shows up correctly?

Please Help. Thanks in advance.
Ankan. Please do correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Socrates101]

I would recommend shutting down the system, disconnecting the modem, if external, if internal remove the card.
Start the system back up, allowing it to completely load up.
Do a normal shutdown.
Reinstall the card and then reboot.
That has cleared up this error in the past for me. If you have software for the modem, reinstall that first and reboot. You may get by without having to do the recognition process.