I asked had this problem a week ago. Many people kindly replied, and I sorted it out. It is the 'auth' option in /etc/ppp/options. I have forwarded the emails to your email address so as not to clutter here. Tom On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:39:40AM -0700, Jacob Hunter wrote: > -|When i run Dial Up Networking on KDE a box comes up saying pppd died >unexpectedly... I have my connection configured properly to work with my ISP, but it >still says that... i even tried a different ISP... > -|anyone have any ideas? > -|jacob > -| > > Do an "ls -l" on your pppd and see what "group" it belongs too. > Add yourself to that group. Then logout/login to reset your > group list. Also look in /etc/ppp for an options file. If there > is no options file then "touch options" to create an empty one. > > --- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com > Preferred O/S: Debian Linux 2.2 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]