1) no proxy in use
2) Advanced TAB: 

Server: messenger.hotmail.com
Port: 1863
Use HTTP method: unticked

Proxy Options: No Proxy

Maybe this helps? Got this out of the messages log (you can see the PPP
connection enabling)

May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog kernel: [  168.563129] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: pppd 2.4.4 started by xxxx, uid xxxx
May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: Using interface ppp0
May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: PAP authentication succeeded
May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog kernel: [  168.814549] PPP BSD Compression module 
registered
May  7 07:29:24 Ghostdog kernel: [  168.886415] PPP Deflate Compression module 
registered
May  7 07:29:27 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: Could not determine remote IP address: 
defaulting to 10.64.64.64
May  7 07:29:27 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: local  IP address xx.xx.xx.xx
May  7 07:29:27 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: remote IP address 10.64.64.64
May  7 07:29:27 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: primary   DNS address xx.xx.xx.xx
May  7 07:29:27 Ghostdog pppd[6167]: secondary DNS address xx.xx.xx.xx

The only weird thing I see here is the PPP stack not being able to
determine the remote (gateway?)  address. This however doesnt explain
that ICQ/AIM/Yahoo do work and MSN does not imho.

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Pidgin does not connect to MSN
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226979
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