===== Original Message From Ron Sinclair ===== 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 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

Hi, Can you try wvdial instead? Jostein 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(

-- Ron Sinclair @ http://www.wigglit.com

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