Dear John:
If you can connect and then suddenly after "starting pppd" your modem
tries to reconnect, then try the following to solve the authentication
problem:
Open /etc/ppp/options in a text editor. You should find just one word in
it, namely, the word "lock". Now add the word "noauth" right beneath it
as follows:
lock
noauth
SAVE your file and REBOOT.
This should solve your problem. It did mine.
Yours,
Benjamin
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