Ben....I had exactly the same experience and after a short and
fruitless struggle I went back to 6.1 on that machine (it's the
only one that has a modem and is my masquerading machine).
There are two threads so far this year on this problem. The
best bet I saw, but haven't tried yet, as it would require me to
reinstall 7.0 on that machine again just to see if it works, was
to uninstall ppp-2.3.10-5mdk and install ppp 2.3.8-1mdk from the
6.1 cd. Let me know what works for you.
Alan
Benjamin and Anna Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> Using Mandrake 7.0, U. S. Robotics EXT 56k modem on com2 (TTS1).
>
> My Robotics will dial into my Bellsouth provider, then CONNECT, but
> suddenly conk out with a message "pppd has died out" and then restart
> initializing and dialing again.
>
> Nothing I try seems to work. I still get the exact same response. It
> connects, I get the following message on the log:
>
> ATZ
> OK
> ATM0L0
> OK
> ATDT525-3398
> CONNECT 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS
>
> Then it disconnects and I get a message saying that pppd has died.
>
> [root@adsl-77-232-204 /root]# cat /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
> # Secrets for authentication using PAP
> # client secret
> sher07 * password
> [root@adsl-77-232-204 /root]#
>
> I have tried to list my ISP number but that didn't work either.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Benjamin
>
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