pam needed for ppp?

I've never been able to connect to the Internet with Debian Linux, even though I don't have that problem with Corel Linux. Another message leads me to ask this question: Is the pam stuff needed for ppp (pon and wvdial) to work? If so, what do I tell apt-get in order to install what's missing? (I

Re: pam needed for ppp?

Lane writes: I've never been able to connect to the Internet with Debian Linux, even though I don't have that problem with Corel Linux What have you tried? What happened? Did you run pppconfig? Is the pam stuff needed for ppp (pon and wvdial) to work? No. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED