It works! I've changed the first occurence in the file /etc/ppp/options of
"auth" into "noauth" and it is all OK.
Thank you for your invaluable suggestions
Vittorio
On Saturday 24 March 2001 03:12, Mircea Luca wrote:
> Victor wrote:
> > After having used kde 2.01 on a redhat box for a year or so, I've
> > installed the latest release of kde 2.1 stable for debian potato on my
> > new PC and go on using kmail as my favourite mail reader.
> > Unfortunately, kppp doesn't run correctly both as a user and as root.
> > After dialing the phone number, it connects giving info about the
> > connection but immediately stop declaring "pppd died unexpectedly - exit
> > status 1" (I had a look at man pppd but this is an extremely generic
> > error) . Neither is /var/log/messages more helpful: it says :
> > "terminating on signal 15". I had a go at chmod u+s /usr/bin/kppp and at
> > giving all the users the same dip group. No success.
> > Could you please help me with it?
> > Ciao
> > Vittorio
>
> Try giving the noauth option either in kpp or in /etc/ppp/options
