On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:22:32PM +0200, Ale wrote:
> Ok, first of all thanks a lot to Tim and David: at least it now SEEMS to
> dial out. :-)
> Another few questions and I'll be able to fly... ;-)
>
> First take a look at my /var/adm/messages
>
> Apr 26 00:04:58 frankie diald[879]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
> supported
>
> what's that? SLIP? Too old?
This is an unimportant message having to do with an operation
not supported in 2.2 kernels.
>
> [Then I LYNXed...]
> [It dialed...]
>
> And now /var/adm/syslog
>
> Apr 26 00:05:33 frankie pppd[2013]: The remote system is required to
> authenticate itself but I
> Apr 26 00:05:33 frankie pppd[2013]: couldn't find any secret (password)
> which would let it use an IP address.
You need to use the noauth option to pppd.
>
> That would be because I did not specify a user.
> I did it in my manual script with
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd connect ' /usr/sbin/chat -v -t60 -f /etc/I_conn.chat' user
> aleque
>
> Where should I put my user information with diald? Please notice that my
> ISP doesn't have a prompt before ppp starts!
pppd-options user <username>
and then make sure it's in your pap-secrets/chap-secrets
With the noauth, you would have
pppd-options noauth user <username>
HTH
Tim
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