On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:26:49 +0000, Cryptic Lineage wrote:
> pppd dies the moment it is launched. Please see following description.
> I am hoping to have some feedback. This is specific to gnome. If I
> use kppp under kde, I can connect just fine, there is no problem whatsoever.

How about kppp under GNOME? Does that work? I never used either, but
IIUC wvdial and kppp are each simply frontends for the same pppd.
Slackware has a simplified frontend called "pppsetup". Did you try that
one? "ppp-go" (as root of course) is the command to connect.

> I checked what exit code 2 means. From man pppd:
>
> 2 An error was detected in processing the options
> given, such as two mutually exclusive options being
> used.
>
> Now I dont know what that means. Here are my options from /etc/ppp/options:
>
> root@enigma:/home/vikram# egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options
> asyncmap 0
> crtscts
> lock
> modem
> proxyarp
> lcp-echo-interval 30
> lcp-echo-failure 4

Nice touch, to bypass the comments. :) Thank you.

Add "debug" to those options and /var/log/debug will contain a detailed
account of the dialogue between your pppd and the Sprint dialup server.
You can also look up each of those options in "man pppd" and find out
about them. The one I think suspicious, that I don't remember from my
dialup days, is proxyarp. That's used so the remote will appear to be
on your local Ethernet segment. I don't think you want that.

Floyd Davidson, who posts here, and Clifford Kite, who posts in
comp.os.linux.networking, are very good at troubleshooting PPP
problems. For the benefit of Mr. Kite ;) I've crossposted this.
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