Rick, we should have started with posting your files :)
> defaultroute /dev/modem 38400 persist You should add on the same line user hawk for pppd being able to understand which line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets to use. > and /etc/ppp/pap_secrets I hope you meant pap-secrets, not pap_secrets. > i'm sorry about any formatting problems; i'm having to do this throught > windows' telnet on a bad connection to get textinsert. most featurs and > escape sequnces are missing, and there's a minute-long lags attimes. . . > > are these all of the files? I haven't found an y file with a PASSIVE as > john suggested. You should also DEFINITELY have /etc/ppp/options file! If you do have it, then adding "user hawk" will do the trick. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-------------------------------------------+ | _ 7 | Alexander Yukhimets | \ (") | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +-------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .