After slightly breaking my home system attempting to downgrade from glibc2.1 back to full slink, I lost the use of bash and _fixed_ my system by manually unpacking base again and fugding with the status file.
But now ppp won't work anymore, I originally got it to work by simply replying to pppconfig's question, but now pppd refuses to use mschap authentification: pppd[202]: Serial connection established. pppd[202]: Using interface ppp0 pppd[202]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS3 pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic 0xc2af944b> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x5a15> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x0 <auth pap>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth chap 05>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xc2af944b> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x5a15> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <auth pap>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xc2af944b> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x5a15> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x2 <auth pap>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x5a15> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x3 <auth pap>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x5a15> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x4 <auth pap>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x5a15> <pcomp> <accomp>] pppd[202]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5 <auth chap 80>] pppd[202]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x6 00 00 02 dc] pppd[202]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x6] pppd[202]: Hangup (SIGHUP) pppd[202]: Modem hangup pppd[202]: Connection terminated. pppd[202]: Exit. However, it's possible that some hardware is now broken, beacuse I also sometimes don't get as far as that and chat fails immediately with a kernel fault: pppd[746]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 chat[747]: abort on (BUSY) chat[747]: abort on (NO CARRIER) chat[747]: abort on (VOICE) chat[747]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) chat[747]: abort on (NO ANSWER) chat[747]: send (ATZ^M) kernel: general protection: 0000 kernel: CPU: 0 pppd[746]: Exit. Any clues? (I probably need to wipe it clean and reinstall...) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/