I ran into this as well. I have to say I'm no 'expert', but I'm not a
newbie at Linux either.
My USRobotics Sportster 28.8 was having a strange problem connecting to my
ISP. It wouldn't kick any error messages, wouldn't give anything but
something like 'ppp failed to initialize'. This bugged me for awhile, I
then tried it as a networking device. That failed as well.
After finally setting up my port speed to 9600 I was able to connect. I
then brought up the speed to 19200, but have never been able to go higher
than that on the straight 'ATZ' or 'AT&F' init strings.
I would guess init string at this point. This sounds similar to the problem
I ran into. After working ISP tech support for many years, at least 50% of
connection problems are phone lines, incompatible modems, and most can be
fixed with a good init string.
After turning the port speed down this works great.
Enjoy.
-Jonathan Freeman
mike montgomery wrote:
> you said "Using kppp under Mandrake 6.0 starts dialing but the access to
> the Server
> isnīt possible. After dialing nothing happens."
>
> Okay ; did you get any error messages ?
> did you configure your account info correctly ?
>
> You could try re-installing the kde rpm's off of your mandrake cd . As
> root mount your mandrake cd and go to the rpm directory. Browse down the
> list, find all the kde rpm's and re-install them.
