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  From: Raymond Chin <rchin.geo@yahoo.com>
  To  : phomann@dataaction.com.au
  Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:15:31 +1030

Re: Dial-up connection on RH6.1

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, phomann@dataaction.com.au wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am having some difficulty getting my RH6.1 to dial up to my ISP.  After much
> frustration, I finally decided to look in /var/log/messages, and found the
> following every time I invoked the dialer.
> 
> Jan  8 23:33:30 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
> Jan  8 23:33:30 localhost pppd[912]: The remote system is required to
> authenticate itself but I
> Jan  8 23:33:30 localhost pppd[912]: couldn't find any secret (password) which
> would let it use an IP address.
> 
Try running ppp -noauth or adding "noauth" under the PPP arguments section in
the kppp dialer in KDE.

Hope I could help
Ray

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