Greetings:

I am in the process of evaluating a Linux based desktop replacement for Windows for our corporate laptops. So far, I have had really good luck and good feedback from the users who are evaluating Linspire.

The only issue that I really have outstanding is the fact that I can't get KPPP/pppd to connect properly with a local ISP several of the sales people are using.

Using a Windows box, I verified that the ISP uses CHAP (MD5) to authenticate. I configured KPPP with for multiple dial-up numbers, using CHAP (also have tried PAP, and PAP/CHAP), noauth, and a 120 second timeout.

I receive a connect, but it appears that pppd is trying to send it's authentication data, but not receiving a response.

The ISP has been of no assistance as they 'do not support' anything other than Windows. However, the Windows connection does not require any special software to make it work, only basic dial-up settings through the connection manager.

Here is the output from the KPPP log window:

ATZ
OK
ATM1L1
OK
ATDT9,5790005
CONNECT 50666 NoEC
Starting pppd....

And debug report from pppd:

Jul 13 11:18:15 bnk pppd[15279]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
Jul 13 11:18:15 bnk pppd[15279]: using channel 11
Jul 13 11:18:15 bnk pppd[15279]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 13 11:18:15 bnk pppd[15279]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tts/LTM0
Jul 13 11:18:15 bnk pppd[15279]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x52712aa4> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 13 11:18:18 bnk pppd[15279]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x52712aa4> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 13 11:18:21 bnk pppd[15279]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x52712aa4> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 13 11:18:24 bnk pppd[15279]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x52712aa4> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 13 11:18:26 bnk pppd[15279]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jul 13 11:18:26 bnk pppd[15279]: Modem hangup
Jul 13 11:18:26 bnk pppd[15279]: Connection terminated.
Jul 13 11:18:26 bnk pppd[15279]: Exit.

I've been googling the heck out of the error messages, but haven't found anything conclusive other than to use 'noauth'.

Your help is appreciated...

"Jul 13 11:18:15 bnk pppd[15279]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tts/LTM0"

This message says that you are trying to connect through a Lucent winmodem. I suspect that your problem is with the driver for the Lucent winmodem. I would start debugging this problem by doing a lsmod immediately after boot. Then do a lsmod immediately after a failed connection attempt. Are the correct Lucent driver modules loaded? Do you have the right version of the Lucent driver modules for the kernel version you are using? And so on.

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Steve Stites