I've used the command "plog" to diagnose these kinds of problems. You have to be root to run plog. I run pon as a normal user, and plog as root from another xterm when doing this kind of troubleshooting.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0800, Brandon Philips wrote: > I used pppconfig to set up my DialUp Worldnet account but it won't start > PPPD. I type 'pon worldnet' and it uses the modem alright, I hear all of > the annoying modem sounds, then it stops. I check ifconfig and nothing > happened. I have tried both CHAP and PAP and neither work and I have tried > the script through root. Any advice? >
