pppd failing -- fixed I hope

[Peter Martin]

Well i started playing with the authorization stuff. I thought it was
working as 'script-based' but no. I finally tried 'CHAP' and it went
like a charm. Of course it could have been a quirk! Future connection
attempts will tell!

Thanks gang!


Jason wrote:
> 
> Peter Martin wrote:
> >
> > I'm using KDE and Gnome trying to connect to the net. It worked at one
> > time, but lately I've been getting errors. One is 'pppd unexpectedly
> > failed' after I see the message that it was 'logging onto the network'
> > and the other is that 'pppd timed out'.
> >
> > No apparent cause that I can figure out.
> 
> When I was using ppp to connect to the internet, it sometimes randomly
> would not work. I would swear there was a pattern to its not working,
> but I was never able to nail down quite what it was. I even upgraded
> pppd to version 2.3.11 (which was 428k instead of 70k. Sigh...) and
> that didnt solve the problem (I dont think the old pppd works at all
> with the new kernel. Cant remember now. I just vaguely remember having
> to boot with an old kernel to get online and download something, not
> sure if it was pppd or something else related to TCP/IP after I moved
> to 2.2)
> 
> In my recent attempt at adding glibc support ... I have completely
> hosed my compiler at the moment. On the other hand, Apache isnt
> segfaulting anymore, that stopped after I ran the new ldconfig, after
> recieving an email containing the patch - it was an honest-to-god bug
> in ldconfig! Now when I try to run glibc stuff, I see the dreaded
> _xstat unresoved symbol error in libX11. ... cripes.
> 
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