Suse 9.3 and mobile office kit!!!

Can anyone help me with a connection problem using a mobile office kit thru
my cell carrier. The phone and the data cable was picked
up just fine by Suse 9.3 (shows up as modem0). I have no problem connecting
to the internet but the connection times out when the connection goes
dormant. There is an option, I can see that "dials on demand" (so when I
try to access another web page it will dial out)but I can't find a place to
set it (under view configuration in Kinternet tool). The kit works fine on
my Windows machine (sorry). What can I do to keep this connection going. My
login info and dialed number are correct. The phone is a Motorola.

Thank you for any help,
Todd

toddbmobile@hotmail.com wrote:
> Can anyone help me with a connection problem using a mobile office kit thru
> my cell carrier. The phone and the data cable was picked
> up just fine by Suse 9.3 (shows up as modem0). I have no problem connecting
> to the internet but the connection times out when the connection goes
> dormant. There is an option, I can see that "dials on demand" (so when I
> try to access another web page it will dial out)but I can't find a place to
> set it (under view configuration in Kinternet tool). The kit works fine on
> my Windows machine (sorry). What can I do to keep this connection going. My
> login info and dialed number are correct. The phone is a Motorola.
>
> Thank you for any help,
> Todd

Chances are you need to comment out the lcp-echo-* checking options
in your ppp config.

That would be in /etc/ppp/options to be exact.

Comment out:

#lcp-echo-interval 30
#lcp-echo-failure 4
#lcp-max-configure 2
#lcp-restart 2

See if that helps.

> toddbmobile@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Can anyone help me with a connection problem using a mobile office kit thru
> > my cell carrier. The phone and the data cable was picked
> > up just fine by Suse 9.3 (shows up as modem0). I have no problem connecting
> > to the internet but the connection times out when the connection goes
> > dormant. There is an option, I can see that "dials on demand" (so when I
> > try to access another web page it will dial out)but I can't find a place to
> > set it (under view configuration in Kinternet tool). The kit works fine on
> > my Windows machine (sorry). What can I do to keep this connection going. My
> > login info and dialed number are correct. The phone is a Motorola.
> >
> > Thank you for any help,
> > Todd
>
> Chances are you need to comment out the lcp-echo-* checking options
> in your ppp config.
>
> That would be in /etc/ppp/options to be exact.
>
> Comment out:
>
> #lcp-echo-interval 30
> #lcp-echo-failure 4
> #lcp-max-configure 2
> #lcp-restart 2
>
> See if that helps.
>
>

Thank You, I will give it a try. - After reading the options file comments
for those four parameters looks like it might do the trick.

Todd