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That's strange, On my SuSE 6.2 box pppd dies, and wvdial redials after a
connection loss. Even authentication failures show in the wvdial window as
"detected error ??? - password failure?".

Look in the SuSE help system for the entries to put into the pppd config
file. there should be only 2 entries there.

lock
debug

Link for this info:  http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/daniel_wvdial.html

I followed the article as I found it on my local box, and no problems with
the wvdial connection. I still can't get KPPP to work on 6.2 though, I
really miss the statistics box it has.


James Silverton wrote:

> I recently installed SuSE 6.2 in a dual boot arrangement using
> Bootmagic. For the immediate future, my connection with the Internet is
> going to be over a 56K modem with an ISP (Erols) whose contract has
> several months to run. Suggestions that I change ISPs would not be
> helpful but I need some advice and information. The ISP quite honestly
> says that it does not support Unix but has given me the only thing I
> really needed, the IP of their news server, without any problems.  I
> have found that wvdial works very well indeed to make a connection with
> the ISP but two things are apparent.
>
> Once wvdial starts pppd, I have no easy indication that the connection
> is still up other than hang-ups of, for example, Netscape or failures of
> ping. Second, my ISP negotiates  password "verification" and failure
> here is much more common than actual busy signals when dialing. Since
> wvdial will have started pppd before the process is complete, I do not
> have any indication of success or failure other than the hang-ups.
> Wvdial does not check password verification and pppd remains active even
> after a failure.
>
> In Windows dial-up networking, I can watch the process and immediately
> redial if verification fails. I am impressed by wvdial and would like to
> continue to use it but the verification failure and lack of a visual
> indication of connection are a pain. Does anyone have any suggestions
> for  a visual connection indicator since, AFAIK, such  a signal would
> solve both my problems?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim.