Dear friends: My thanks to James Fantastiki and Samuel W. Sum for helping solve the kppd authentification problem. You know, it dials and then, just as it connects, you get a message saying: kpppd has died. SOLUTION: Did a little research in www.searchlinux.com and found the solution to the kpppd problem in a note nby Samuel W. Sum. Here it is: In /etc/ppp/options simply type "noauth" for no authorization and that will automatically solve the problem presented by pap-secrets. You might wish also to delete "lock" from the options file (and from kpppd) but it works fine WITH "lock" in options and with lock checked in kpppd. In fact, that is what KDE recommends. That solved it. Now Robotics works everytime. I hope it helps everyone else who has this bewildering authentication problem. Just to be sure, you might wish also to check SETUID for pppd in /usr/sbin/pppd. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
