kppp to Flex?

[Wayne]

On 8 Sep 00, at 9:41, Jeff Mings wrote:

>   I'm using the Magenta Fedora 6.2 distro, but had a similarly annoying
> problem
> with kppp.  I was able to manually set up dial-out (to LavaNet) with no
> problems.
> Ifup ppp0 worked every time.  However, kppp refused to connect, giving me
> no
> meaningful error message in the log or dial status window.  As it turned
> out,
> merely changing the device from /dev/ttyS1 (modem is on 2nd serial port)
> to
> /dev/modem fixed it.  I didn't bother looking deeper and getting to the
> root of
> why the link worked but the direct reference didn't work.  /dev/ttyS1 had
> also
> worked correctly when checking the modem with minicom.
> 
> -Jeff Mings

Since my modem worked fine with Mandrake 7.0 I don't think that's my 
problem. Perhaps something in the CHAP-secrets file. Will check on that.

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