Shane, it sounds like authentication is failing. When that happens, my experience is that I -eventually- get a message to that effect. If you had kppp configured correctly, I'd suggest it was an intermittent problem at your ISP. Assuming it is a configuration problem your end 1. In kppp for kde 2 you should just need to set it to PAP and not worry about modifying initial options or anything else. 2. If you have used another dialer (e.g. before you got kppp, or to send your postings), you have probably specified chat for that. My money is on a line in /etc/ppp/options which will invoke chat. In which case, either edit that file (and only use kppp to dial), or copy it somewhere else and write a script to switch versions of /etc/ppp/options when you need to dial out with chat. e.g. in my routine to dial up for mail (executed as root) I have rm -f /etc/ppp/options cp /etc/ppp/options.batch /etc/ppp/options followed by the dial-up, fetchmail, etc, and ended by rm -f /etc/ppp/options cp /etc/ppp/options.kde /etc/ppp/options to leave it ready for me to use kppp. Ken On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Shane McKeown wrote: > Hi all > > I have just installed Kppp, the Kde Dial-up > application. > I am having trouble dialing to the internet. > The modem dials the number ok, but everything seems to > > stop when pppd is starting up. I get the message > ' Logging on to network ', and it sits here and goes > no further. > > When I look at the list of processes using ps -aux > at the bottom I can see the pppd is listed, but for > some reason part of the command line mentions > chap, whereas I have specified pap in the dial up > settings. > If the process is listed, does this mean that it is > working, or could it have died? > > Any ideas what I have done wrong? > > Shane > > I'm only a menial robot -- Marvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
