I verified the patch[1] also with Debian Lenny ppp version 2.4.4rel-10.1
and the Huawei E220. Here are logs of failure without the patch and
success with the patch applied. udev fired up 'pppd call gprs' when
/dev/ttyUSB came available.
Although this problem is not strictly a PPP one, a patch to pppd might
help. It was mentioned in comp.os.linux.networking discussion (quoted
below) and did the trick for a Huawei E220 USB and an Option PC card.
If I got it right, with the patch pppd asks DNS settings until all IPCP
setings are
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