a modem is used to connect to an ISP. wvdial is being used as the dialer. After dialing the connection will be up for some time and then the connection is terminated with error "pppd died unexpectedly" . The modem is now hangup in debug mode. same problem is faced with minicom dialer. If anybody came across the same problem please tell me how to tackle the problem. Thanks in advance - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu