I am trying to get wvdial setup for dialing into work. I dont need it to dial on demand so I figured this was the easiest way to go. I guess easiest might not be the term :).... Here is the output from wvdial: -=-=-=-=-= CONNECT 24000/ARQ/MNP/COMPRESSION: NONE --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. --> Starting pppd at Tue Mar 27 09:14:23 2001 --> pid of pppd: 338 --> Disconnecting at Tue Mar 27 09:14:23 2001 --> The PPP daemon has died: Fatal pppd error (exit code = 1) --> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. --> Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd --> man pages for more information. -=-=-=-=-= So I go check /var/log/messages and find this: -=-=-=-=-= Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: Plugin /usr/lib/passwordfd.so loaded. Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: Perms of /dev/ttyS1 are ok, no 'mesg n' neccesa ry. Mar 27 09:14:23 shire modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib /modules/2.4.2/modules.dep Mar 27 09:14:23 shire modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: ioctl(TIOCSETD): Invalid argument(22) Mar 27 09:14:23 shire pppd[338]: Exit. -=-=-=-=-= After looking at that, I figured I better take a look at modules.conf to see whats whats there: -=-=-=-=-= alias iso9660 isofs alias tty-ldisc-1 slip alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp alias tty-ldisc-5 mkiss # alias tty-ldisc-7 6pack alias tty-ldisc-7 off # IrDA -=-=-=-=-= After this I checked in /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/net: -=-=-=-=-= . .. bsd_comp.o dummy.o ppp_async.o ppp_deflate.o ppp_synctty.o -=-=-=-=-= Now I checked the manpage for pppd: -=-=-=-=-= 1 An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential system call failing, or run ning out of virtual memory. -=-=-=-=-= I dont see my ppp.o module, so I am assuming that this is the issue. So I do a search for ppp.o and come up with nothing. I assume that my alias line in modules.conf is incorrect (alias tty=ldisk-3 ppp). Finally, my question. Do I need to alias that to ppp_async.o, ppp_deflate.o, or ppp_synctty.o?? Or none of those? Am I completelly off track here? Sorry about the long message. If you guys (and gals) need any more info, let me know. This is on SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4.2 if that matters. Thanks! CK