thanks for your help, i got it working :) i had a really long username, containing to # chars, maybe that was the problem. i found out that i simply can leave out this chars. than it works. in the ipppd.ippp0 file i had a string like this: user = "foo#more#bar" it's working in the pap-secrets file this way so i thought it should work here too. maybe it had solved the problem to write something like user = foo\#more\#bar but anyways, i don't need this #'s and now it works :) thanks again and well, i'm really satisfied with debian yet, now i have to configure my x but i don't think this will be such a problem :) great distribution
-Daniel > 1) Are you root? Trying out as user root will eliminate any permissions > problem and thus help isolating the problem. > 2) As for being disconnected immiadtly after logon, once again aren't the > log files have hints? > 3) What is the problem with avoiding the PAP secret warning with chaning > the pap-secrets file to PAP secret warning with chaning the pap-secrets > file to * * password ? Perhaps there need to be 2 lines in the pap-secret > file: > > bash-2.04# grep -A10 OUTBOUND /etc/ppp/pap-secrets > # OUTBOUND connections > > # Here you should add your userid password to connect to your providers via > # PAP. The * means that the password is to be used for ANY host you connect > # to. Thus you do not have to worry about the foreign machine name. Just > # replace password with your password. > # If you have different providers with different passwords then you better > # remove the following line. > > this_machine_name * password > user_name_at_ISP * password_at_ISP > bash-2.04#
