So I gave my uncle Mepis, he loves it, but I had to get a serial modem for his dial-up account. Its over an hour drive so most of our trouble-shooting has been done via telephone, but we cannot get the modem to connect no matter what we try!
We did these two options:
wvdial help (we had to remove both Init lines, dunno why), and
kppp help but neither want to actually connect. Both dial, both talk a bit, but kppp cannot start the "pppd interface" (!?) and wvdial has a "sketchy connection" or something, and a "difficult time handshaking" (or something similar, as this is from memory from our recent conversation)
Any ideas out there!? Thanks LQers!