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From: Marco Masotti <mc7953@mclink.it>
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> I have tried several ways tos et up my ppp to dial my provider and no > luck.
> When I dial manually with the 'term' command in ppp I can connect with > no
> problems however when I type 'load MyISP' and 'dial' it connects but does
> not establish ppp connection. In other words the ppp on accent does not
> change to PPP on accent> any suggestions would help greatly.  I am willing
> to send a copy of my ppp.conf to anyone interested.

I got the same problem in the past. You may want to try in ppp.conf:

	set openmode active

Good Luck