Hello :) I had the same problem with nokia 9000 and ppp connections to a linux box. The short script below is not mine but helped me connecting n9k & linux.
Anyway, try setting up a dial-up connection on windows, then minicom on linux and answer "OK<enter>" to every AT command sent to you :) Also write it somewhere and modify the chat script below :) Maybe modify the IPs as well... Try putting such a script into inittab or /etc/init.d as well. Should help. But may produce biiiig problems if your linux machine is a masquerading server (especially with ipmasq package). But if not, then it's not such a problem. #!/bin/sh pppd /dev/ttyS1 38400 modem lock -crtscts xonxoff debug \ connect 'chat -v -t 864000 \ ABORT "+++ATH0" \ "ATZ" "OK^M^J" \ "AT&F" "OK^M^J" \ "ATD" "CONNECT^M^J"\ "" "ppp^M^J" \ "" \d\c' \ 192.168.1.193:192.168.1.194 \ bsdcomp 15 \ domain lan ms-dns 192.168.1.1 \ noauth asyncmap 0 proxyarp \ -ccp nodefaultroute \ lcp-echo-interval 10 lcp-echo-failure 2 lcp-max-configure 30 \ persist -detach $* & > It alway think of a modem involved. > Regards -- Wojciech Kocjan If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.