Dear RH, I was able to connect at 56K to my Earthlink account, but pppd died immediately upon connect saying: "server is required to authenticate itself, but I can't find a (secret) password for the IP address" I tried using ALL of the authentication methods, almost all the sensible settings for the Earthlink account setup screens, with no change in the results. I would very much like to use your "Update Agent", but this is not possible, unless I can connect. Sincerely, Arthur Baldwin, Tech Support Lanner Electronics, Inc.
This is a known problem with the version of pppd shipped in 6.1, and is fixed by the initscripts errata release. If you are unable to download the errata package, adding the "noauth" option to your /etc/ppp/options file will achieve the same effect. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7142 ***