[olug] pppd is pissing me off

[Brian Roberson]

ah yes, you need to add the -noauth option to pppd, There "should" be some
place to add in extra pppd options in your dialer app ( wvdial, never used
it )



----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lassek" <alassek at techie.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] pppd is pissing me off


> I'm not running pppd manually, wvdial is. Where would I add the debug
> option? Here's the errorlog from daemon.log:
>
> Apr  9 20:54:11 riff pppd[674]: The remote system is required to
> authenticate itself
> Apr  9 20:54:11 riff pppd[674]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret
> (password) for it to use to do so.
> Apr  9 20:54:11 riff pppd[674]: (None of the available passwords would let
> it use an IP address.)
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: "Brian Roberson" <brian at bstc.net>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: April 6, 2001 12:49:16 AM GMT
> Subject: Re: [olug] pppd is pissing me off
>
>
> turn on the debug option and see what is happening.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Lassek" <alassek at techie.com>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:14 PM
> Subject: [olug] pppd is pissing me off
>
>
> > Well, since I was still running a k6/2 400 I decided it was time to
> upgrade.
> > I replaced my mainboard with an asus a7v and an Athlon 900.
Unfortunately,
> > the a7v does not have an isa bus, and my modem just happens to be isa.
So,
> I
> > also bought a hardware-controlled pci modem from us robotics that
> > specifically claims linux compatibility. It only works with kenerel 2.4
> and
> > up, though, so I then had to upgrade my kernel before it would work. I
> > finally got a working 2.4.3 install last night. Now, when I dial into my
> ISP
> > (using wvdial) it handshakes, connects, and then starts pppd--which
> promptly
> > fails (error code 1). I tried upgrading pppd with no luck and I know
that
> I
> > compiled ppp support into the kernel. Can anybody tell me what could
cause
> a
> > problem like this?
> >
> >
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