Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

["James P. Bennett" <jbennett@xxxxxxx>]

On a machine with no local network and only dialup connection to
internet, I used rpm to upgrade from 9.2->9.3  No difficulties, except
now external modem can't connect to isp, apparently because ppp0 (manual start,
says boot.msg) is lost.

Using kinternet, /var/adm/messages records only
      ifup-ppp: failed to bring interface ppp0 up

Using wvdial, 
      ...
      --> Using interface ppp0
      --> pppd: ennett
      (above repeated 5x)
      --> Disconnecting ...
      --> The PPP daemon has died: Authentication error ... (exit code
      19)

Through all this smpppd is running.
Replacing 9.2's etc and /usr/sbin's permissions with those from copied
from 9.1, yields same result. 

The wvdial diagnostic shows something is wrong: "ennett" is my user
name stripped of first character, and I don't think it should be
listed at all.

An internal slmodem exists, tied to ppp1, but I'm not using that
modem.  Should I physically remove it?

Ideas?

jim bennett