Invalid net mask CRTSCTS??
 

I'm using KDE, and it's internet dialer, which I assume is a graphical front end of pppd. How would I disable crtscts in internet dialer?? I changed flow control to Xon/Xoff, and even none, but I get the same error every time I dail my isp up. They were little help to me, I wish there was a little more Linux support! Oh well..... Any ideas??

ISP's support for Linux is, to quote a phrase, pants.

Check your /etc/ppp/options file for the config you have stored there. Also, what type of modem do you have.

What is the error you keep getting?

The modem I'm using is a Lucent Winmodem...now a "Linmodem". It dials, and allows me to send my username and password, but then something very very wrong happens. Here's the text of the dialouge box that pops up:

The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!

Exit Status:17

See 'man pppd' for an explanation of the error code or take a look at the kppp FAQ on

http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/index.html

When I click on the details button here's what it returns:

Linux pppd[191]: invalid net mask vaule 'crtscts'

Sometimes the exit status is 2 or 5. but that has only happened once or twice for each #.

oh, and the man page doesn't show anything with error codes!!

Have you managed to get your modem to work before with Linux (i.e you have configured it using the linmodem how-to?)

My manual page for pppd says that error 19:

19 We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer.

What does the contents of your /etc/ppp/options look like?

the /etc/ppp/options file reads as follows

# General configuration options for PPPD:
lock
defaultroute
noipdefault
modem
/dev/ttyS1
230400
crtscts
# Uncomment the line below for more verbose error reporting:
#debug
# If you have a default route already, pppd may require the other side
# to authenticate itself, which most ISPs will not do. To work around this,
# uncomment the line below. Note that this may have negative side effects
# on system security if you allow PPP dialins. See the docs in /usr/doc/ppp*
# for more information.
#noauth
passive
asyncmap 0
name "tdganz"