Re: [expert] mandrake 7 probs revisited

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 7 yesterday. I cant get pppd to work. It states 
> something like "The remote computer is requested to authenicate itself
> I however am unable to supply [secret] password to get an IP address"
> 
> something like this. This does not change whether I am Root, or user.
> Actually if from a terminal window I type "pppd" I get the same response.
> 
Check the archives. This is a known "bug." You need to put
"noauth" in the config file for pppd. 
        John