This may be too obvious, but have you tried increasing modem & pppd timeouts in
kppp ?
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I am having trouble getting connected to my ISP via Linux (Mandrake
> 7.0). Here is what is happening:
> My modem is set up (drivers installed) and appears to work fine. When
> using kppp, the modem picks up, dials, goes through the handshake with the
> other computer, and connects giving the speed. kppp then says it is logging
> onto the network,but times out waiting for pppd to come up. I have checked
> my DNS and server info, I have let kppp set these, and have set them
> manually in my resolv.conf. I have also checked my PAP-secrets file
> (CHAP-secrets too) and all are fine. My /etc/ppp/options file is is empty
> as it should be for kppp. Nothing seems to help. I have tried connecting
> manually through the
> terminal in kppp and also through minicom. Both will connect, and I can
> give my logon and password, I am then assigned IP address, but can't get any
> further.
> I have now tried the ppp setup from the mandrakeuser site
> (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cppp.html) that uses pppd and chat
> scripts. They don't work either. I still dial in, handshake, connect, then
> die. My /var/log/messages and it says that I
> everything is fine (shows dial, connect, etc) until it says "alarm" then
> "disconnect"
> I have searched the web, and though it seems that other have had
> similar problems, I can't find an answer. I also searched the old postes to
> this list and found a letter describing this exact problem, but the only
> answer given didn't seem right.
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg27367.html) It
> just said that the ISP was slow and to try to get a new number. I know that
> the ISP works fine because I had this whole thing set up right before (with
> help from others at an install party, but I can't get ahold of those people
> any more), but I had to re-install (long story).
> I would like to use kppp (I know it can work, it used to), but at this
> point, anything that works will be fine!
> Thanks in advance!
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