This is a digest of the list alug@stu.uea.ac.uk The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily those of UEA or UUEAS. 3 messages in this digest: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... [alug] Dial up dilema... === MESSAGE 1 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:17:08 +0000 (GMT) On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Dermot Musgrove wrote:

Stu wrote:

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Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? Cheers Stu

hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the same error is coming up:-

"The pppd daemon died unexpectedly"

AFAIR this happens because you have a line in /etc/ppp/options with 'lock'

kppp does its own locking, it used to be OK to have an empty options file.

chmod uog+rwx /dev/modem does the trick here. -- James Green Site Manager james@linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC === MESSAGE 2 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: Darrell Scott <scottie@linux.ca> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:46:55 -0400 On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Stu wrote:

hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the same error is coming up:-

"The pppd daemon died unexpectedly"

The debug file reports the folowing:-

"localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address."

Sounds like an authentication problem to me... maybe you're using the wrong userid/password combination? Capitalization? Maybe you're using PAP instead of CHAP, or vice-versa. It might be a good idea to try connecting to another account you have the username and password for - both on the same ISP and another ISP, if possible. That way you can isolate the problem. I've had trouble connecting to NT servers in the past; I had to recompile pppd for MS-CHAP authentication (all the instructions are with the source code). I don't think this is the error message that I got though.

I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I

This would remain consistent with an authentication problem. If you're manually editing stuff, edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and/or /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Check out ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and PPP-HOWTO for more info. Good Luck! Darrell (A former East-Anglian living in Canada!) -- scottie@linux.ca === MESSAGE 3 === Subject: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: bsamuels@datamansys.co.uk Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:20:37 GMT ** Reply to note from "Stu" <stu@mgstu.co.uk> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Stu

Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? Cheers Stu

hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the same error is coming up:-

"The pppd daemon died unexpectedly"

The debug file reports the folowing:-

"localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address."

I believe that the remote host should not be required to authenticate itself! from ppp options: # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network # packets to be sent or received. auth If you have the above in your ppp options file try kppp after changing the 'auth' line to 'noauth'.

I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I > also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the > speaking clock so I know the modem works.

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Best wishes Barry Samuels