HI all Im not feeling particullary bright here, *somehow* my diald got TOASTED! not exactly sure what I did but suddenly diald began to give me errors "temporary name server error" Ive checked resolv.conf, /etc/hosts/ everything seems normal I removed and reinstalled diald with yast tried activating and deactivating lastly I removed every trace of diald ; rebooted ; did find / -name diald <nothing>; reboot ; installed diald via yast ; activated in yast network config removed .fetchmailrc and reran fetchsetup diald is just not coming up!!!! I can dial up with /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up generic and then run fetchmail no problem now fetchmail "local error: network is unreachable" diald "no device specified. You must specify at least one device" diald & "no device specified. You must specify at least one device" diald /dev/ttyS0 "you must define a connection script&remoteip&local ip" What the hell is going on! diald is set to yes in rc.config Ive rebooted the system... It dosent come up also fwiw I noticed yast trashes the generic.options when ever I alter the ppp connection ! UNREAL!! So Im going from everything working nicely... to what looks like...(a reinstall) this shouldnt be necessary! :-/ not a happy camper please advise rob -- Linux Home page <A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm"><A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A">http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>