kppp: pppd timed out (not starting)

Tuesday, 30 March 2004

Hello, 

I use fedora here at work and I recently installed it at home, and since
I don't have a broadband connection, I had to use my winmodem, which was
configured perfectly, the problem comes when I have to connect with kppp
(also tried wvdial) and both said that they were timed out expecting
pppd to come up. pppd said something about not being able to start
because some protocol was not active (ip maybe?), then I just configured
an ip address on my network card (which is not connected anywhere) and
tried again connecting via dial up, which worked fine.

Now, is there anyway of doing this without configuring the eth0
interface and just start pppd normally?

Thanks,

Jose Aristides Tamayo

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