Gutentag , I hope you isdn guys accept english language.It's so much easier for me.If someone prefers to answer in German,I don't mind I try to <cough> migrate from suse7.2 to gentoo.I posted this question to the gentoo-mailing list,but no answer,and maybe you are the only guys in the world who can help me :) In my suse 7.2 isdn is working ok(I like suse for that) For my new installation I built and installed a 2.4.20-gentoo kernel with all the isdnstuff as modules and support for my elsa-pci card.But Idon't get it to work At startup,and with /etc/init.d/net.ippp0 start,Iget this : localhost root # /etc/init.d/net.ippp0 start *Starting ipppd for ippp0... In file /etc/ppp/options.ippp0: unrecognized command /dev/ippp0 *Failed to start ipppd Anyone can give a little help? Fielen danke, Jaap van Geffen