pppd hangs after connecting with a winmodem

[Scott H]

Would some wizard be kind enough to look at my
log on this problem?  

http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/ppp_log.html


> Scott's problem is the same as was happening
> for Michael Havens, which is
> the same as was happening for my dad... this
> same thing happens for all
> distributions (Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, and
> others) using kppp... or just
> about anything except pon/poff which is the
> only way my dad has been able
> to use his modem under Linux.
> Curiously, some folks on the list report kppp
> to work fine, but in my
> experience it has never worked anywhere on any
> distro, always giving "died
> unexpectedly."
> If we can nail down WHY, I'll put the solution
> into an official FAQ
> somewhere somehow.
> There must be tens of thousands of people who
> have this same problem, but
> I've never found a satisfactory answer anywhere
> on the net, after days of
> googling.

> From: Scott H <scottlhenderson@yahoo.com>
> > 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???


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