your mileage may vary...
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:43:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Can't get ppp to work
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looks like your chap-secrets or pap-secrets file is miising information in it
to log in to your ISP.
The format of the PAP file is::
<your username> ppp0 <your password>
On 22-Dec-99 Gordon Charrick wrote:
> Okay, I've done everything I can think of to get ppp working. The modem
> is not a winmodem. I can talk to it and get it to dial with minicom.
> I've triple checked the configuration settings and everything seems
> fine, but the fu**er just refuses to do anything with an "ifup ppp0". It
> doesn't seem to even be talking to the serial port. Does anyone have an
> idea what is going on? These are the lines from the messages file.
>
>
> Dec 21 20:47:36 butch ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS1 at
> 57600
> Dec 21 20:47:36 butch pppd[1750]: The remote system (ppp0) is required
> to authenticate itself but I
> Dec 21 20:47:36 butch pppd[1750]: couldn't find any suitable secret
> (password) for it to use to do so.
> Dec 21 20:47:36 butch ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS1 at
> 57600
> Dec 21 20:47:36 butch modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
>
>
Rod Flancher
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"The more I see, the more I see there is to see" - John Sebastion
