[H-GEN] 56k modem problem: kinternet error

[andrew laidlaw]

Hi Everyone,
  
  My agere/lucent winmodem is auto-detected by suse 10.1's yast installer  and appears to be properly installed, although yast has assigned it the  device name /dev/ttyLT0.  
  
  I'm using KDE desktop.  The documentation says to use kinternet  from the desktop to connect to my ISP, but this does not work, although  everything (username, phone number etc) has already been configured  under yast. 
  What happens upon clicking the kinternet icon is a window comes up for  the password.  Then, when I give it the password, and click  <ok>, the dialler just dies.  The (kinternet) log file says:
  
  pppd[0] died: pppd options error (exit code 2)
  
  Meanwhile,
  #man pppd
  
  tells me that exit code 2 is invalid or incompatible options for the pppd command.
  
  But I cannot see how to know, or control, what options are being passed  from kinternet to pppd.  Right clicking the kinternet icon, and  selecting <settings> - <view configuration> provides a  window which includes a place called pppd-options, but there is nothing  showing there.
  
  I have tried using kppp (another dialler application) but it has a  fixed list of device names, which does not include /dev/ttyLT0, and  cannot be modified.
  
  I have also tried to use pppd from the shell, but cannot create the  necessary text files to test this due to the fact that the (brand new)  keyboard cannot produce a backslash character.
  
  I cannot find any documentation on Kinternet under man, help or info, nor using the kde gui interface to suse help.
  
  The system is AMD XP2000+ / 256MB.  Suse10.1  kernel is 2.6.16.13-4-default.
  
  Many thanks in advance,
  
  regards... andrew.
  
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