Hi, From: Peter Pilgrim <peter.pilgrim@db.com>

Hi

I am still very much at a lost!

I recently upgraded my laptop computer from Slackware 3.4 to SuSE Linux 6.1. I am trying to get SuSE Linux to connect to Demon Internet, but I keep getting errors from `pppd' where it said `operation not permitted' in the file `/var/log/messages'. I have also downloaded latest `pppd' 2.5.8 and it still did not work. Here are the messages:

pppd[345]: pppd 2.3.8 started by root, uid 0 pppd[345]: kernel tty_io.c process (345) pppd used obsolete `/dev/cua2' up date software to use `/dev/ttyS2' ... ... pppd[345]: Serial connection established pppd[345]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted pppd[345]: tcsetattr: Operation not permitted pppd[345]: Exit

I checked everything that I could think of. I made sure that I tried to connect as the superuser. I checked that `/dev/modem' is symbolically linked to `/dev/ttyS2'. I also checked that the access permissions for the program `pppd' and device files were set to `root'. I have no difficulty dialing up to my ISP with my modem, but everytime the connection is completed, the `pppd' collapses. I suspect that has something to do with the second message about the obsolete `/dev/cua2'. I am clueless where to look next.

/dev/cua<x> used to be the 'old' name for /dev/ttyS<x> serial devices, it became obsolete with kernel 2.2.x (but it may have been 2.1.x, I'm not sure). A workaround could be to make a symlink from cua to ttS (as root): ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/cua2 this does not solve the actual cause of the problem, I'm too much of a newbie to know the exact details - maybe you should install 6.1 from scratch instead of upgrading from a different distro?

I did also type `find /etc -type f -print | xargs grep -n cua2' , but I could not find any configuration file to help me.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Cheers Peter

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