You can try to kill pppd but it will respawn methinks. This is something to do with Qtopia waiting on the serial port for a sync connection (same goes for chat, etc.). There was a script you could edit to get rid - on the devnet of course, perhaps someone will remember.
If you want to try killing it use:
# kill -9 PID
where PID is the process ID (from \'ps\' for example)
or
# killall -9 pppd
will also do the trick (using the name instead - actually it\'ll kill anything will pppd in the name I think)
Si
