nic needs to be forced!!

[FelixDzerzhinsky]

knoppix@hal9000:~$ ls -la /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 1810 Aug 7 20:47 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
knoppix@hal9000:~$ ls -ld /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 1810 Aug 7 20:47 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

There seems to be a permission problem!

[Stephen]

knoppix@hal9000:~$ ls -la /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 1810 Aug 7 20:47 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
knoppix@hal9000:~$ ls -ld /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 1810 Aug 7 20:47 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

There seems to be a permission problem!

Have you checked to make sure that you are a member of the dip group, that is the group ownership on the dsl-provider file not the dialout group. If that fails you may want to try chmod 644 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider to make the file r/w for user root and read only for the group and others.

[FelixDzerzhinsky]

knoppix@hal9000:~$ pon
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
knoppix@hal9000:~$ ls -ld /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw-r--r-- 1 root dip 1810 Aug 7 20:47 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
knoppix@hal9000:~$ adduser knoppix dip
adduser: Only root may add a user or group to the system.
knoppix@hal9000:~$ su
Password:
root@hal9000:/home/knoppix# adduser knoppix dip
The user `knoppix' is already a member of dip.
root@hal9000:/home/knoppix# pon


No Luck! This is the story so far!

[FelixDzerzhinsky]

As a temp measure I have made all my users( my girlfreind and I) sudo.

Now it connects on boot.

Thanks to all, especially Stephen from Nova Scotia and greycat on #debianhelp