are there any alternative programs for linux that dont need wine or any shared library stuff that do a better job of a connectino than what pppd does?

im using it on my mandrake box at the moment and am having endless trouble with dropouts and other such crap such as it just refusing to connect yet it works alright on windoze, ive looked thru the mandrake manual but cant find anything at all

all i want is something like what windoze uses which doesnt require me to find out so much info from the isp and so it just works and doesnt give me trouble, i'd hate to have to format my linux box and put xp on it just to use as a gaeway server when i know linux is more secure and stable

id been thinking that it was a modem problem but the modem works well under windoze with the correct driver, the modem is supported by linux so i dont know what to do