still ppp problems with AS200 4/233 (fwd)

[Kerry Boguszewski-Odom <kerry eskimo com>]

Hi,
	My problem is that I cannot get my ppp connection going despite 
being able to do it in minicom.  I've tried putting the "\~" " " at the 
end of the chat script and I've tried switching from ttyS2 to ttyS3 both 
on IRQ 5.  I tried ttyS1 with irq 3 but was unable to get minicom to work 
under this--I suspect because com2 already has this port and I do not 
know how to disable a port in my alpha.  The modem is a 3com 56K fax 
modem and it works fine with minicom. pppd seems to die after it makes 
the serial connection and issues the log message ppp0 <--> ttyS3. I am
running redhat 5.2 alpha.

I am considering trying to reload the entire system from scratch as my 
next step in trying to get this to work.  What puzzles me is why it works 
under minicom but not pppd.  If anybody has a 3com 56K internal modem 
working in an Alpha AS200 4/233 and has seen this problem, I would be 
much indebted to know how you got past it. Below is a portion of the 
logfile. Thanks in advance. Kerry

Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0xa <magic
0xf654978b>]
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0xa <magic
0xf654978b>]
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: Serial line is looped back.
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: Serial line is looped back.
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0xb "Loopback
detected"]
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0xb "Loopback
detected"]
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0xb "Loopback
detected"]
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0xb "Loopback
detected"]
Feb 28 10:50:59 Suzi pppd[518]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0xb]