Kppp probs

[Kush Desai]

I am presently running RH 6.0 with KDE 1.1.I have a GVC 55600bps modem and a manual login into my ISP. i am faced with a couple of problems. 1)When i open kppp and try to dial i can hear the dial tone....then the modem seems to pick up the line to dial then drops the line and says that there was no carrier.i then tried putting atx1( this command makes the modem dial without waiting for detecting the dial tone). in this case it dials and after terminal window comes up nothing happens.but after a 1 or 2 minutes the modem disconnects the line and says that there is NO CARRIER...... 2) when i use mincom to dial my isp i am able to log in and then it gives me my MTU and other gibberish. now if i try to open netscape and give it an address it does not go anywhere.....why is this?also like in kppp it disconnects automatically after 2 minutes and gives me the NO CARRIER message......why is this? anyway i can dial to my ISP without bliand dialling coz i think that might be the problem for my modem hanging up........also someone told me that minicom is only to be used for shell account and not for tcp/ip...is that so?? Thanks to all of you in advance Kush p.s i stay at opera house....so if anyone can help out by coming over please let me know........thanks