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Patricia, I belive that's the wrong advice you're giving.  There is an
AWFUL but in RH 6.1 which requires you to do two things to stop that
message.

1.  put "noauth" in the /etc/ppp/options file

2.  After the connection is made, type route add default ppp0

To permanently correct the second problem, you can generally go into
/etc/sysconfig, and edit the file called "network", and take out any
value after GATEWAY=.  This will stop the default route being set on
boot.

The problem people are complaining about bitterly and frequently has
nothing to do with ppp misconfiguration, or chat scripts.  Yes, it
helps to have suid set to root on pppd, but the problem people are
having is caused by Red Hat not doing their homework.  They should be
ashamed at a bug like this which is causing almost everyone (with a
network card perhaps) to have an impossible time connecting to the
internet.  How do they expect people to convert to this great
platform, when they make it so tough.  

The fix to this (and the parallel port not detected problem which you
are also aware of) should be posted with blinking lites and big fonts
so that people with a problem can spot it easily.  Maybe something
like "Red Hat 6.1 users check here for important bug fix information".
That doesn't make the stock price go up, but it gives newbies some
help.

Harry

Patricia <preggers@NOSPAMvillage.uunet.be> wrote:

>blariz wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the tip, I will go to KDE.org and check for the FAQ's.  I
>> hope it works for me too!
>> blariz
>> 
>> In article <387D7449.BF5772C1@infantry.com>,
>>   "jorge o. castro" <castro@infantry.com> wrote:
>> > blariz wrote:
>> > >
>> > > There are a lot of people complaining about kppp lately (including
>> > > me).  It was working fine for me in my COL2.3 distro with the KDE
>> and
>> > > kppp that shipped.  Now I am playing with Peanut Linux (kernel
>> 2.2.14,
>> > > KDE1.1.2) and the exact same thing is happening mostly as user (not
>> > > root).  As soon as I connect,  I immediately get disconnected with
>> the
>> > > error that "Sorry, the pppd daemon has died unexpectedly".  I
>> wonder if
>> > > KDE.org is aware of this and addressing the issue??   I have
>> downloaded
>> > > a dialer from freshmeat.net called XISP that looks like it could be
>> > > promising.  I haven't installed and tried it yet.  Hopefully this
>> will
>> > > get sorted out soon.
>> > > blariz
>> >
>> > did you try "chmod u+s pppd" and/or "chmod u+s kppp" ??? It's in the
>> KDE
>> > ppp faq .. I had that problem with the disconnect, did that, now it
>> > works fine!!
>> >
>> 
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>> Before you buy.
>* be sure pppd is the binary and not a script. 
>* be sure that pppd  is setuid root 
>* be sure  /etc/ppp/options exist and there are no wrong entries, when
>you are not sure, leave it empty. 
>* uncheck the option use lock file 
>* remove the  lock  in /etc/ppp/options 
>* if the symbolic link /dev/modem causes problems,. 
>            Use the real port ( -> setup->modem->device) 
>            ttyS0 -> COM1 
>            ttyS1 -> COM2 
>            ttyS2 -> COM3 
>            ttyS3 -> COM4 
>
>-- 
>HTH :-)
>Patricia
>
>http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
>Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
>Kernel 2.2.5-15
>  1:52am  up 18:33,  1 user,  load average: 1.18, 1.34, 1.34
>Fri Jan 14 01:52:18 CET 2000

Harry Fine
Toronto, Canada