pppd error messages

[Adam Myrow]

I had no trouble switching from 2.2.19 to 2.4.X.  I now run 2.4.17 quite 
happily.  If you're using Speakup with 2.4.5, I assume that you had to 
compile it yourself?  If so, did you answer y for both PPP support and 
async serial support?  Other than that, I've never seen the errors you 
described.  Also, when you took out the Winmodem, did you nuke any modules 
it may have installed plus any calls to modprobe or insmod that referred to 
them?