Dialup to telus.net

[Derek Broughton]

Doug Robinson wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> It's forever since I had a dialup account, but "noauth" is, I believe,
>> the
>> problem.  Unless ppp has been patched you can't use "noauth" in the
>> config file (unless ppp is run by root), only in the peer configuration.
>>   
> 
> Thanks this seem to be in the correct direction...
> 
> I have resorted to running as root until such time
> as I make it work.
> 
> Running as root I get this error message:
> 
> Cannot connect to ppp0 - ppp0 not found.
> 
> OK this looks like a device or a link to one.
> any ideas where it should go.

Not really - it should be created by udev when you start a ppp session. 
iirc, there used to be aliases in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases - but now there's
only one for pppoe.  Do you see anything in syslog at the time?
-- 
derek