Cant dial out with kubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

debiani386 at gmail.com wrote:

> pppd:The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> pppd:but it couldnt find any suitable secret (password) for it to do so
> pppd:(none of the available passwords would let it use and ip address)

See the ppp config file - uncomment "noauth"
 
> Prior to that, i opened kppp to set up my phone number and user
> id/password and it told me that it could not find "resolv.conf".

That looks odd.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. and just for the record, im using
> slax (as the regular ubuntu seems to not support my modem...its recognised
> as a ttyACM0)

I'm not sure why that should be a problem.  You should be able to use a
modem on ttyACM0 just the same as on any other port.
-- 
derek