On Saturday 06 July 2002 21:08, Axel Siebenwirth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to dial in to my ISP to get into the internet. ISP requires PAP
> authentication.
> Formerly I have used wvdial, but with Slackware I cannot use it anymore
> because it needs the passwordfd.so plugin for pppd for PAP
> authentication. And that plugin comes only with SuSE, binary only.
> So now I have asked myself what I would need to do to set up a PPP
> connection with PAP auth to my ISP "manually" i.e. without using any
> tools. I'd like to know what is involved in that. I know about
> pap-secrets file. I do not know how to dial, establish ppp connection,
> do PAP authentication.
> So I'd be really glad if someone could help in that direction. I also
> know C, so if I would need to write some program myself, I could do so.
> I just need to about the things that need to be done.
> In my case it's an analog modem.
>

Huum, funny, so how comes that i use wvdail on my laptop with slack 8.0 ??

Or am i missing sommat here.

> Thank you and my regards,
> Axel
>
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