Yes, passwordfd.so is apparently a binary-only package that SuSE ships and uses in its configuration of wvdial. Pfui!
OTOH, wvdial does work with standard pap-secrets. The regular PPP HowTo should be able to get you going, or you may find the procedure described at this URL helpful -- http://www.icewalkers.com/doclib/howtos/Modem-Dialup-NT-HOWTO-2.html I no longer use dialup here, so I can't help with specific questions if this info isn't sufficient. But I hope it is at least enough that you will be able to pose more specific questions next time qround, so someone who does use wvdial will be able to help. (You do need to understand that most of us don't care to write step-by-step instructions for things in e-mail responses; that's what FAQs, HowTos, and the like are for.) The PPP HowTo should also tell you how to connect manually, if you really want to fall back to that option. At 11:08 PM 7/6/02 +0200, 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. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
