Not following my inner cautiousness, I was trying to fix my Konqueror problem and somehomw messed up my kppp settings.
Thinking I'd pull a slick one, I created a whole new account and moved all my stuff from my original home, changing the permissions. Everything worked fine except my modem...kppp would no longer work. I don't know why, as I'd not changed a THING regarding any config file or kppp itself. Kppp kept giving me a 'locked modem' message and when I though I had that licked, it started kicking out error messages stating that pppd was kicking out a '0' code. This is a serious no-no, as I really need access to the 'net. Root was working fine, until I'd started messing with changing
On 5 Nov 2001, Ron Sinclair wrote: permissions to various things related to pppd (per the kppp FAQ). Well, as I kept trying to repair damage, I kept digging a deeper hole. I lost track of what I was doing and got utterly lost.
To gain net access again, I pulled the whole damn modem and put it in my Slackware 7.0 box. Things weren't fine afterward either. I was getting the same '0' pppd code. The message stated that the box didn't have ppp configured in the kernel. I proceeded to then try to build a quick kernel
with ppp support and when I got to ppp, I looked in the help file and saw that I could call it up as a module. I didn't know if the out-of-the-box Slackware had the ppp.o module but typed in 'modprobe ppp' anyways. It loaded and I tried kppp again and actually got online!
I don't know if I want to remove the modem and try the above with Suse. I didn't have to do that before and I'm thinking that if I tried that things still wouldn't work, but I'm at a loss and really miss my Suse. Slack is OK but I'm used to my Suse catering to me instead of the other way
around.
Since I got so lost and don't know how to fix the problem, I'm looking at just doing a total reinstall of Suse 7.1. I really don't want to do that because I'd just got my box to where it was running about 90% the way I wanted it.
This sucks! >:o|
I just needed to vent. I'm not even going to attempt to explain what permissions I'd changed and what config files I altered, because I don't know anymore. A fresh install is looking like the better solution as each hour passes.
Gotta go now...gotta back up my home directory. :o(
Have you tried uninstalling kppp and ppp and then re-installing them? That will make sure you have the right permissions. Just back up some of your config files, and then make changes by hand, not by replacing those files. Does this work? -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0