Modem has to dial in twice to work?

OK, heres the problem. I installed knoppix 3.3 to hard drive the debian way. I installed my Lucent winmodem by recompiling the modules and make them load on startup. I can easily connect to the Net with kppp, but the first time after a reboot, it always times out. I hit connect again, and it always connects fine (I'm using it now).
Heres my message log...
Mar 26 14:01:51 box kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Mar 26 14:01:51 box pppd[2026]: pppd 2.4.2 started by default, uid 1000
Mar 26 14:01:51 box pppd[2026]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 26 14:01:51 box pppd[2026]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyLT0
Mar 26 14:02:21 box pppd[2026]: Terminating on signal 15.
Mar 26 14:02:21 box pppd[2026]: Connection terminated.
Mar 26 14:02:21 box pppd[2026]: Exit.
Mar 26 14:03:01 box pppd[2116]: pppd 2.4.2 started by default, uid 1000
Mar 26 14:03:01 box pppd[2116]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 26 14:03:01 box pppd[2116]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyLT0
Mar 26 14:03:05 box pppd[2116]: PAP authentication succeeded
Mar 26 14:03:05 box kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Mar 26 14:03:05 box kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Mar 26 14:03:05 box pppd[2116]: local IP address 206.edited
Mar 26 14:03:05 box pppd[2116]: remote IP address 10.edited
Mar 26 14:03:05 box pppd[2116]: primary DNS address 206.edited
Mar 26 14:03:05 box pppd[2116]: secondary DNS address 206.edited

Can anyone tell me why this happens?
Also, I definately put the modem modules in the wrong place for a standard debian distribution. Where should the modules go and how do I activate them on startup? What script do I edit so they automaticly start on boot? I want all users to have modem access and just use kppp or whatever to dialup.

By the way, this whole knoppix thing ROCKS! I use it at work all the time now (the 3.3 CD version), but at home I just overwrote Mandrake 9.2. I think I like debian better. I sure loved the install script!