The phone did work as others were able to dial out on it. The last thing I looked at were permissions on pppd (set correctly), firewall settings (no difference if firewall on or off). The only other thing of note was that the box didn't give a dial tone so we couldn't tell if it was going off hook but... the logs showed a definate 15-20 second lag between the daemon starting and failing which might imply a connectivity issue. The suggestion was to test again using someone elses address on a different ISP, one known to work on a different box (or use Ralphs Slingshot id on another box) just to eliminate ISP login issues.
Carl
