pppd refuses to start after modem handshake

[igueths at comcast.net]

Hi all. I am attempting to get PPP to work on my girlfriend's box with
little luck. I got her Lucent Winmodem to work because I happened to find a
driver on linmodems.org that works with that modem. So far, I've gotten the
modem to dial out to the ISP, however pppd refuses to start. The modem
properly establishes a connection, however wvdial or pon fails to start
pppd. I got the following in syslog and am not sure as to what it means.
Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3
Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline:
Invalid argument
Jul  8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: Exit.


I am not sure what module pppd is looking for. Perhaps I need to compile
something into the kernel that I neglected to? Currently running Debian
3.0R1 with kernel 2.4.20. The only item related to PPP which is set to yes
in .config is CONFIG_PPP. The connection I am attempting to use was
configured via pppconfig, so as far as I know /etc/ppp/pap-secrets,
/etc/ppp/peers/provider (connection name) are fine. And just to make sure I
checked the PPP howto for proper syntax and everything seemed fine. Note
that I do not have Speakup currently installed on this machine because
there is no synthesizer available. Therefore, my girlfriend is reading me
the screen. Also, I have not successfully set up a PPP connection, so I am
not sure as for what to look for that characterizes a successful
connection. I am using the standard PPPd/chat pair to set up this box as
the PPP client. Does anyone know why I am getting this error and/or how to
resolve it? Thanks!

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