Well....I am finally on the net again with 9.2 Thanks to all those that offered help. For those that are interested, this is how I did it.
After (another) clean install, I ran drakConnect to set up the connection and restarted before attempting to connect. after the restart, KPPP had not appeared there as it had for one other user, so I installed it from the 9.2 disks. Then I restarted again. This time KPPP had been installed correctly and it had not simultaneously removed most of my other apps like it did last time. Now I attempted to connect using KPPP.... failed again, the PPP daemon died unexpectedly. When I viewed the error log it told me that the ISP had spat out the username/password I knew I had them entered correctly sa I tried changing a setting (the protocol?) in KPPP from PAP to PAP/CHAP and now all is working fine. - this might be worth noting for others trying to use ancient dial up accounts. I don't know if all the restarts were necessary, but I'm still in the windows mentality of "if in doubt - restart" when you make any changes to program installations. As for KPPP installing this time but not others, it seems that the order I did things in made the difference this time. Last time I had not configured my connection in drakConnect before attempting to install it and it really screwed my computer up. I wouldn't have thought this should have made any difference though. Any thoughts??? perhaps this would be a handy addition to the Twiki - but I'm still not certain WHY this worked this time so I don't want to go adding notes that are full of bulls#%t -Aidan
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