external modem, kppp, timeout expired signal 15
 

Recently installed Simply mepis.
I have supraexpress 56e external modem. Modem works fine with windows and Slackware. So no hardware problems.
In Mepis KPPP I put correct DNS, passwords, pppd timeout=60sec.
Modem query returns ok.
In etc/ppp/options file noauth exists.
File permissions for pppd and kppp are setuid for owner and group(read and write)
when I try to connect it connects, authenticates username and passwd, then says pppd starting.
And i receive PPPD timeout expired, Terminating on signal 15.
What is in Mepis, preventing this modem to work?
Please help.
Thanks

hi there

i too faced this problem in fedora core 2
but that went wasy when i tried that on a fresh install of fedora after some time
so u should try reinstalll of ur ppp packages

also what errors u get after the enabling the option "DEBUG" in kppp after u do not get connected

regards

I reinstalled Mepis twice. no avil.
I wonder why it works well in slackware.

hi there

try
wvdial

man wvdial willl help u more

regards

You can also try qinternet or kinternet, if you can find those packages available for your distro... I think they are a SuSE specific thing, but you may be able to get them working on another distro if you are able to compile them for your distro from source...