On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:30, you wrote: > > The most telling message in /var/log/messages is "LCP timeout sending > > config requests". > > LCP - line control protocol? > Those errors I thought are typically caused by the ISP not > responding to authentication requests before timeout. > Solution: increase timeouts. > However, you say *sending* config requests - perhaps it's something else > entirely, like the modem in fact not exchanging any data at all with the > ISP, and this LCP thing is the first step and therefore the one to fail.
Yes, but googling for that error message and ltmodem brings up a lot of examples of the same issue (including *gasp* SuSE, because it is such a low-level thing.) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=LCP+timeout+sending+config+requests+ltmodem This is an interesting one, for example. http://www.archivesat.com/Linux_modems_help/thread165232.htm But all this knowledge is no help to me, as I am not next to Alan's machine, and it's not much help to Alan without some guidance. Oh well. Andrew
