Hi, I don't know what let me to think that pon and diald were related. I probably installed diald a while back in preparation to get PPP working after I got an ISP that supported PPP. In any case, I don't think there is anything wrong with any documentation at all. I just had a lot of new things to learn about all at once.
I just grabbed netscape-smotif-45 through apt-get, and I am using it to send this mail (through hotmail's site). I deleted my provider script, reran pppconfig, and pon now does everything for me automatically. I didn't have to change any files. I've been tailing ppp.log and it still rejects a negotiation for compression, but everything is working though. I also changed auth to noauth, as the CHAPS authentication fails. I expect to talk to my ISP;s tech support tomorrow and ask them what I should do, or even if this stuff is expected to work. All in all, I'm thankful thinks are working on the net! John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
