[Gllug] Any PPP gurus?

[Adrian McMenamin]

i am seeking to upgrade my Red hat 8 box, currently running a patched 2.4.19 
kernel to 2.6.0 (to avoid having to patch the kernel and to get a pre-emptive 
kernel that will not freeze the system as spamassassin runs :-< )

I have to patch the 2.4.19 kernel as I am using Homechoice as my ISP and only 
kernels after 2.4.21 support the USB dongle I've got out of the box - and why 
upgrade to 2.4.22 when 2.6.0 is available?

Anyway, I can build and boot the 2.6 kernel without any problem, but I cannot 
get it to sustain the ppp connection with homechoice - I get an LCP timeout.

Anyone here a pppd guru and able to point me in the right direction?


Here is the log:

Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new 
driver usbserial
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial 
Driver core v2.0
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial 
support registered for FTDI SIO
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial 
support registered for FTDI 8U232AM Compatible
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial 
support registered for FTDI FT232BM Compatible
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial 
support registered for USB-UIRT Infrared Receiver/Transmitter
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial 
support registered for Home-Electronics TIRA-1
IR Transceiver
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide /sbin/hotplug: no runnable 
/etc/hotplug/usb-serial.agent is installed
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide /sbin/hotplug: no runnable /etc/hotplug/tty.agent is 
installed
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide pppd[861]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: ftdi_sio 2-1:1.0: FTDI 8U232AM Compatible 
converter detected
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: usb 2-1: FTDI 8U232AM Compatible converter 
now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new 
driver ftdi_sio
Dec 28 17:35:14 landslide kernel: drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: v1.4.0:USB 
FTDI Serial Converters Driver
Starting chat
115200
Dec 28 17:35:25 landslide pppd[861]: Serial connection established.
Dec 28 17:35:25 landslide pppd[861]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 28 17:35:25 landslide pppd[861]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
Dec 28 17:35:25 landslide /etc/hotplug/net.agent: NET add event not supported
Dec 28 17:35:33 landslide kernel: warning: process `update' used the obsolete 
bdflush system call
Dec 28 17:35:33 landslide kernel: Fix your initscripts?
Dec 28 17:35:38 landslide kernel: warning: process `update' used the obsolete 
bdflush system call
Dec 28 17:35:38 landslide kernel: Fix your initscripts?
Dec 28 17:35:56 landslide pppd[861]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

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