Re: Kppp inactive

["handyman" <kleinjie@kopjie.com>]

"Kent West" <westk@acu.edu> wrote in message
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> handyman wrote:
>
> >   Hi.  I'm forced to write to you from Windows as I can't get KPPP
working.
> >
> >I have Sarge of 10.1.2005 from
> >http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. being CD1 of the full CD
set.
> >This was downloaded from the net and burnt onto a CD. The checksums
verify.
> >I have a Gigabyte GA-7VAX with an AMD Athlon 1800MB processor
> >Hard Drive is a Western Digital 7.5 GB which has only this distro on it.
> >
> >   The problem is: when I click on KPPP in the KDE menu, nothing happens.
> >I have tried a number of work-arounds but I still can't dial up.
> >
> >   I had the identical problem when I downloaded a previous issue (maybe
> >3.1.2005, but losing track now)
> >
> >  ( creating the file /etc/resolv.conf and giving it user permissions
gets
> >KPPP displayed, but `Automatic` on DNS Configuration is greyed out. O.K.,
> >put in the Primary and Secondary DNS figures - still doesn't work. I'm
> >continually getting the following error:
> >
> >
> >Jan 16 19:44:24 localhost pppd[3692]: The remote system is required to
> >authenticate itself
> >Jan 16 19:44:24 localhost pppd[3692]: but I couldn't find any suitable
> >secret (password) for it to use to do so.
> >Jan 16 19:44:24 localhost pppd[3692]: (None of the available passwords
would
> >let it use an IP address.)
> >
> >
>
> Are you in the "dialout" and "dip" groups? Type "groups" at a command
> prompt to see the groups to which you belong.
>
   I get;   handyman, dialout, cdrom, floppy, audio, video, plugdev. ( no
`dip` )

    Thanks (I have no idea what these mean)