> 	My school has a set of modems that are dedicated to ppp and use
> PAP for authentication. I've modified the chat script in Bill Studenmund's
> ppp kit so that it does not wait for a prompt. However, I can't seem to
> write the options file ( or maybe it's the pap-secrets file ) correctly so
> I'm not getting authenticated and the connection gets dropped after about
> 20 seconds.

Two questions:

1) Do you have /etc/ppp/pap-secrets setup? It should be something like:
* * <password>

2) Do you have sample chat scripts? Some places want a "ppp" at
a prompt prior to doing pap authentication.

Take care,

Bill