Unreliable Kppp

[Chris Howells <chrish@gmx.co.uk>]

I've been using Kppp for a while (KDE 2.2.1), and have always had
problems with its reliability.

My system is Debian potato, kernel 2.4.3-2.4.4 and pppd 2.4.0. Ppp
support is modular.

I very frequently get "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!" and "Exit
status:16", just after the "Connect 45333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS" in the
debug window.

/var/log/syslog shows the following:

Apr 29 12:24:36 venus modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
Apr 29 12:24:36 venus pppd[1021]: pppd 2.4.0 started by chris, uid 1000
Apr 29 12:24:36 venus pppd[1021]: Using interface ppp0
Apr 29 12:24:36 venus pppd[1021]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Modem hangup
Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Connection terminated.
Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Exit.

and /etc/modules.conf containts the following:

alias char-major-108    ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp          ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3       ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14      ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21   bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24   ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26   ppp_deflate
alias ppp0 ppp

WVdial always dials reliably. Does anybody have any ideas how to make it
more reliable?

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Howells 
E-Mail: chris.h@gmx.co.uk
ICQ: 93699029
Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net