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