> You did remember to keep the serial port speed constant between
> everything, correct?  The most common problem that I have is when I dial
> under one OS at say, 57600 baud, and then have my pppd setup for 115200.

I dial with kermit setting the serial port to 38400 (although I did try
9600), the modem connects to our service provider at 28800. I log into
the service provider manually, then shell out and run pppd. The
/etc/ppp/options file has the baud rate set to match kermit. I do the
same thing on NetBSD/i386 and it works. I never bothered to set up chat
scripts. 8-). I don't do this very often.

After running pppd, I see the recv led on the modem blip every few seconds 
as the service provider puts out the sync stuff (I guess). I see no
activity on the send led. As Berndt said in his message, pppd just gives
an lcp timeout (whatever that is). The debug option to pppd logs nothing
to syslog other than:

May 24 15:33:26 netbsd2 pppd[123]: pppd 2.3.0 started by jb, uid 102
May 24 15:33:26 netbsd2 pppd[123]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyC0
May 24 15:33:56 netbsd2 pppd[123]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
May 24 15:33:56 netbsd2 pppd[123]: Connection terminated.

whereas on NetBSD/i386 I get:

May 25 08:31:21 netbsd1 pppd[162]: pppd 2.3.0 started by jb, uid 102
May 25 08:31:21 netbsd1 pppd[162]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty00
May 25 08:31:27 netbsd1 pppd[162]: local  IP address 203.17.40.115
May 25 08:31:27 netbsd1 pppd[162]: remote IP address 203.9.190.29

>                        Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
>      Amiga junkie and user since 1987    Computer Science & DTV Student
>      Commodore64 fan since about 1983    http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
>                Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"

I guess I have to assume that unless someone says "it works for me", then
it *doesn't* work for any of us (and then we'd better find out why not 8-).

Regards,

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