Sadly, none of the suggestions offered have worked, and after a day discussing with Xtra, ( who continued with the party line) my client simply changed isp's end of issue.
I can't help but wonder how long it will take for xtra to wake up, or how many customers they have to lose before they realise that many people do not need/require or want broadband. just my 70 year olds ramblings. Thanks for all those who offered the knowledge and support regards Chris Thomas On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 22:06 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote: > > chris wrote: > >> it seems to be something in the exchange of username or password that > >> xtra is not acknowledging under hardy 8.04, but is under xp pro > >> > >> The ppp log reports "looks like a keyword", and then crash. times out or > >> terminates I am no completely sure which. > > > > From memory there is an error like this created by 'root' being owner of: > > > > r...@celeron2195-ubuntu804:~$ ls /etc/ppp/* -l > > -rw------- 1 root root 101 2008-08-01 11:25 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1754 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ip-down > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1892 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ip-up > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 784 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ipv6-down > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 922 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/ipv6-up > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13486 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/options > > -rw------- 1 root root 1649 2008-08-01 11:25 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 2007-10-05 08:57 /etc/ppp/pppoe_on_boot > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 2008-08-01 12:46 /etc/ppp/resolv.conf > > > > ..which 'user' needs write access to one/some of in order to complete > > the login. > > Compared to old install (see "peers" difference), from which I used to > dialup: > > r...@celeron2195-ubuntu804:/mnt/sda7/etc/ppp$ ls -l > total 72 > -rw------- 1 root root 118 2008-03-30 15:08 chap-secrets > <snip> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13523 2008-05-14 08:35 options > -rw------- 1 root root 1666 2008-03-30 15:08 pap-secrets > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 4096 2007-11-26 12:43 peers > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 2007-10-05 08:57 pppoe_on_boot > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-22 16:55 resolv > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 2008-05-29 17:41 resolv.conf > > r...@celeron2195-ubuntu804:/mnt/sda7/etc/ppp/peers$ ls -l > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 109 2008-03-30 15:08 ppp0 > -rw-r----- 1 root dip 1093 2007-10-16 12:28 provider > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2007-06-15 01:51 wvdial > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 2007-06-15 01:51 wvdial-pipe
