More answers.
For Eamon Roque
The last line of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets does in fact have username*password,
both of which are correct.
For Steve Kowalik
file /boot/vmlinuz<tab> gave me:
vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17
As I comparison, I did the same thing on my Redhat partition and got;
vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17
The last one was added by me in order to make lilo boot the correct Debian
kernel, as I described in a previous posting.
Now a question from me. Is there anything between BIOS and an operating
system? How can the same difficulty appear in all versions of linux but not
Windows or Beos?