ppp is a wrapper for a dcon script to open a ppp connection. It just calls dcon /configure/ppp-on , which dials an ISP via the modem and starts pppd. I like dcon better than chat . In fact, I wrote see programming based on dcon.
The command that actually is the PPP daemon is pppd . If you just call that raw by itself and you do have PPP support in your kernel it will send ppp-noises to your terminal as it tries to make a PPP connection with it. This tells you you definitely do have PPP in the kernel.
The best way to configure PPP in cLIeNUX is with pppsetup , but you can also use pppd and minicom to suss things out on a piecemeal basis.
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