pppd authentication problem

[James Sinnamon <frodo000@bigpond.net.au>]

Dear Debian users,

Until now, I have been accustomed to having ppp work without the need
to understand a great deal.

However, I have not been able to get kppp to work on my new Debian
sarge/testing system in the same way it used to work on my previous 
RedHat 9.0 system.  

In the log window, I see the word "CONNECT" after roughly 10 seconds,
but am immediately disconnected, seemingly before ppp even begins
to authenticate itself.  The errors shown are:

  Jul  8 14:25:59 localhost pppd[1065]: The remote system is \
     required to authenticate itself
  Jul  8 14:25:59 localhost pppd[1065]: but I couldn't find any \
     suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so.
  Jul  8 14:25:59 localhost pppd[1065]: (None of the available \
     passwords would let it use an IP address.)

A copy of ~/.kde/share/config/kppprc can be found at:

	http://www.sos.cable.nu/debian/debug/kppprc.txt

Can anyone spot what is wrong or what is missing?

BTW, is there a  relationship between kppp and ppp? Does kppprc
have anything to do with the files in /etc/ppp/ ?  ... or 
with /etc/network/interfaces ?

TIA 

James

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