[Techtalk] kppp 2.1.1 problem

[Akkana]

kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net writes:
> IN RHL 7.3 while dialing with kppp 2.1.1 I got this following message and 
> it disconnects and denies to connect to the net.
> 
> "Timeout expired while waiting for the PPP interface to come up"
> 
> In tail -f /var/log/messages shows:
> 
> pppd [2937] modprobe: can't locate module ppp0.

Earlier Redhats always needed tweaking to get a modem working -- 
I'm not sure if the same advice still applies, but here's what
I used to have to do around 7.0 when I saw the error message
you're seeing:
  http://shallowsky.com/linux-modem.html

	...Akkana