I am getting here late, but have you tried, prior to using kppp to connect,
modprobe ppp_async? Your situation sounds like the one I was in with LM8.0b1,
the ppp0 module didn't exist, ppp_async didn't load for some reason, I had to
load it manually everytime. I got the pppd server died
To all,
I hope I am not repeating an issue that has been discussed on this mailing list
recently, but I could not find any reference to my problem in the archive. I
have tried twice to install LM 8.0 on my compaq deskpro 5200MMX, both time
failing. First with the cheapbytes 8.0, most recently
