On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:18:55PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michael Croon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm stuck with a problem related to ppp that is similar to the one already > brought up here by Ashby Gochenour's (see his post > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0007/msg00157.html in July). > Unfortunately, no solution working for me was given in the thread. > > Short description of the problem: > --------------------------------- > > * Config: > > - Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r0 _Potato_ Official i386 > - Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test9 > - PPP compiled as modules (ppp_generic.o, ppp_async.o) > that kerneld inserts successfuly > - ppp_2.3.11-1.4.deb > - pppconfig_2.0.5.deb > > * Problem: > > I configured the scripts with pppconfig. I use PAP and chat. pppd calls > the ISP, establishes a serial connection and dies with a LCP timeout after > having failed to send out ConfReqs. It seems to be a specific problem to > the above mentioned configuration as my SuSE 6.1 box (Linux 2.2.10, > pppd 2.3.5) works fine with the same ISP (i.e. it sends out the LCP > ConfReq and receives one shortly afterwards). I tried to use the SuSE > scripts on Debian, but pppd died with 'alarm'. > > Any help is very appreciated!
Try making the LCP configure timeout from the default to a much longer value. It's in the options file.