[SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

[Brad Kowalczyk]

Its been about 2 months since my last attempt so I thought I might try 
to get a net connection happening on my Linux box again. This time with 
a *real* modem that I know works and on Mandrake 9.1 ... dah!

Everything goes fine under kppp until "logging into network" and then I 
get a pppd timeout error:

Aug 25 19:12:57 localhost pppd[3708]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Aug 25 19:13:26 localhost pppd[3708]: Terminating on signal 15.
Aug 25 19:13:27 localhost pppd[3708]: Exit.
Same as I was getting before, what goes? So according to man pppd signal 
15 has something to do with 'peer not responding to echo requests' or 
similar. Is this a problem with my ISP (bigpond) or something at my end?

I can dial in manually under kppp terminal an log in with my details but 
then after 20secs or so I get disconnected. I am getting really 
fustrated, I just want to ditch M$ alltogether but I need a net connection.

Can someone *please* help?

Brad

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