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:

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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.

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So I go check /var/log/messages and find this:

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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.

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After looking at that, I figured I better take a look at modules.conf to

see whats whats there:

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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

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After this I checked in /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/net:

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. .. bsd_comp.o dummy.o ppp_async.o ppp_deflate.o ppp_synctty.o

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Now I checked the manpage for pppd:

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1 An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred,

such as an essential system call failing, or run

ning out of virtual memory.

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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!