pppd hangs after connecting with a winmodem

[Dennis Kibbe]

Quoting William Lindley <wlindley@wlindley.com>:

> 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.
> 
> \\/
> 

kppp works fine for me under Slackware 9.0. Has anyone with this problem tried
wvdial? It's billed as being able to handle any authorization scheme.

Dennis Kibbe

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