Your pppd keeps sending Config Requests until it times out. Normally LCP ConfReq is followed by "received LCP ConfAck" -- received from remote pppd. So, in your case remote pppd is not running.
In minicom wait unitl you receive a line of garbage with many curly brackets. That's remote pppd sending you ConfReq's. Then exit and fire up pppd. That's precisely what I was doing and it didn't work... However using pon & poff (as suggested here) works fine. Thanks for your help. ian W -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .