There is a "connect-timeout" command is the diald config. 
>From the man page:

connect-timeout <t>
Set the maximum amount of time to wait for the connect script to 
complete to <t> seconds. The default is 60 seconds.

Try to set it to a larger value.

Kind regards,
Jeroen de Boer

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Noel Thompson wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have installed diald on quite a few linux boxes. I have never had this
> problem before. The machine is a 486 33mhz with 32 mb ram. It is running red
> hat 5.0.
> 
> When diald is started everthing runs fine, it does the connect script, it
> sends username and password to the ISp but just before it is assigned an IP
> address and pppd starts, gives message "conect script timed out" it then
> drops the line and tries again. Sometimes it gets through but this is a
> problem.
> 
> I saw on the diald home page under FAQ, that I should add two extra lines in
> /etc/resolve.conf add two extra identical nameservers. I have done this and
> it seemed to help slightly the script gets further than it did before I did
> this.
> 
> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> regards
> Noel Thompson
> Internet Unlimited
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> 
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