-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Sep 2002 10:25 pm, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing > happens. I'll go back into it to try to find the log message. > I can dial out with kppp, but as soon as I'm connected pppd dies, > with the message 'cannot obtain a password for this IP address'. > Obviously I can't get a password from my ISP and I've searched > everywhere to try to find out which file it's in.
You need to edit your /etc/ppp/options file an have the option noauth (i think it is commented out by default). Also make sure there is no 'auth' option somewhere else in the file. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9com2XCpWOla2mCcRAt+KAJ49UWURUSS/bKjQH0N5ukW3RLJbnwCfWxi8 3sEY8Jb6CgWqxKVZQthCiI4= =s7Cw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
