pppd hangs after connecting with a winmodem

[Scott H]

Thanks, Bart, but no, that didn't do it.  No one
else has any ideas?  :(

> From: "Bart Garst" <bartgarst@cox.net>
> I had a similar problem while trying to connect
> to my in-laws MSN account
> from knoppix. I had to prefix their username
> with 'MSN/' so 'username'
> became 'MSN/username'.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Bart
> 
> >>>
> Trying to set up an older box for Mom: P110,
> 32M
> RAM, with RH 7.0.  She has an MSN acct (don't
> start it :)  and a Lucent PCI winmodem. (this
> is
> starting to sound like putting a round peg in a
> square hole, I know :)  Anyway, I downloaded
> and
> installed winmodem_linux586.zip and can
> successfully query the modem now using kppp.
> But
> when it dials, it seems to do an
> authentication,
> then pppd hangs the whole box hard and leaves a
> popup box with a message "the pppd daemon died
> unexpectedly".  If I quickly switch to
> Ctl-Alt-F1
> before the box loses all response, I see among
> other things "Kernel panic: attempted to kill
> the
> idle task".  Per one suggestion I found, I
> commented out the lock line in
> /etc/pppd/options,
> so that only kppp is locking the modem.  I've
> tried CHAP, PAP, and scripting the
> authentication. I've tried various settings for
> the modem, but can't seem to get anything to
> fix
> this. Suggestions???
> 
> /scott


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