Dear Alan:
No need for any of that. The answer is as simple as pie, i.e. when you
discover it or, as in my case, when a kind fellow discovers it for you.
I have already sent a message on this to the list. Apparently, it has
not yet been published. So here it is in full:
By the way, I use, like you, U. S. Robotics EXT 56k modem with Mandrake
7.0.
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
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