I installed Debian 3.0 r1 to see if I liked it yesterday. It is kernel 2.2.20 with KDE 2.2.2. Where is KPPP? I configured PPP and also wvdial and
there is no KPPP. Wvdial dials my ISP then when it tries to connect it starts looking for PPP then gives an exit code of 10.
What am I missing? I have had no trouble with SuSe 9.0, Mandrake9.1,
or RH9 with the dialer but..........any ideas?
Thanks from a Linux VIRGIN!

Try using apt to get it. The command would be (as root) apt-get install kppp assuming you've configured your sources.list file correctly.

If you use KDE, take a look in System > Debian > Admin > pppconfig

Yeah, I did that before. But what is the command line to launch KPPP?
I can do a wvdial but no KPPP, PP-On PP-Off, etc. Is wvdial the only
"dialer" I have?
Thanks for your time.

Thanks, adz. Did just that. Configured KPPP...pretty straighforward. Went
to dial out. Got "exit code 1". Also got message "/etc/resolv.config is missing or can't be read. Ask your system administrator to create this file
(can be empty) with appropriate read + write permissions." Question: What number for permissions do I give it? Do I just create it?
Also, got a message "the remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret password for it to use to do so. None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address."
Geez, can it be this hard? The only resolve file I could find was under the
/etc/ppp directory and with a 'dir' it has listed the ISP names that I think
I created with PPPconfig under admin. The wierd thing is I go into PPPconfig and even though I delete the accounts in there, if I go back to
change a setting under PPPconfig, there are many listings to change, like
MYISP, then there is MYISP.bak.bak.bak and MYISP.bak. What is this garbage and why does it show up after I delete it? Is it trying to save an old configuration for me? Thank you.

There i'm blank. I use a Billion Broadband Router to get online with.
Since we got 3 pc's here that's online. Mine and two old win-9x.

Good luck with the setup.

To tell you the truth I never used kppp or wvdial. I just used pon. You run pppconfig to set up your account details or edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider (that's where they're saved) and then type pon at the prompt.

You /etc/resolv.conf (not resolv.config!) file should have your nameservers in it. It should be owned by root and in root's group with the permissions: rw-r--r--. That's 644 in hex. So yes you can just create it (although it REALLY should have been there before). If it still wants a resolv.config file then just make a symlink but that's highly irregular.

As for all those ".bak" files, those are the previous saved configurations. It just pushes each config backwards and adds another ".bak".

One other thing is make sure you've added your username to every group but especially the "dip" group.

Thanks for your help, adz! You wouldn't believe all I've had to do to get
connected (I did!). Went to devel-home.kde.org and I did what they said.....I commented out the auth line in the /etc/ppp/options. I had to create a /etc/resolv.conf file, cause there was NONE. Then, bingo! I was
connected at 45,333. Not bad. Same speed I had before with SuSe. But
under KPPP details, I only see a spike of about 1.0kbps and then small
spikes every so often, but no page load, but no errors, either. Then I do a
cat /proc/interrupts and there's no IRQ3 being used (I'm using com2 -tty/s1). Then I check the bios and the INT and IRQ's are OK but I have to
put serial port 1 and 2 to 'auto' to see IRQ3 in cat /procs. I figure I solved
it so I try to connect again and th same thing.....connect at 45333 but no
loading of pages. I tried a few different sites. Man, I hope somebody has
an answer. I'm want to use Debian and I ain't givin' up!
Hope I didn't ramble too long. Thank you again for getting me started.

Check your /var/log/syslog. See if you're getting any vj decompression errors. I had a bastard of a time with those at one point. Mind you, I never had a problem with the 2.2.20 kernels only the 2.4 series.

I'll do that. I don't understand what a vj compression error is, but I'll look
into it. Thank you very much. By the way, I am running a 2.2.20 kernel on
Debian 3.0 r1.