Star Rubies wrote:

Hi there,

Thanks for the help! There were lots of weird M type characters in the .conf file, I fixed it ran pnpdump and got the following output:

[start] lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked Board 1 has Identity a9 ff ff ff ff 36 42 63 0e: CSC4236 Serial No -1 [checksum a9] Board 2 has Identity 7b fe db eb ab 31 30 72 56: USR3031 Serial No 4275825579 [checksum 7b] Board USR3030/-1612403801 not found - skipping [end]

So I told YaST that the modem lived under Com1, entered ISP info and nameserver. Made sure there was no .lock in ppp/options and punched all the info in kppp, but it still just says "modem busy"

In the BIOS setup, I set the irq for Com1 to ISA type instead of PCi/PnP

And under the motherboard options I changed com1 form auto to disbaled.

So I'm baffled again, but at least something has been accomplished :-)

Please help if you can, Cheers! Dom

Hi Dom I dont want to seem pendanic but... IMO kppp only "looks" easier to use. Pros Has a nice gui, time online, etc mouse click on/off some possible accounting of time spent online Cons you *must* be in k to use it! this rules out any other xwindow rules out command line rules out cron- diald its *slow*... ;-) you use a mouse (yech) Id heartily recommend wvdial to get up and running initially wvdial will *FIND* your modem!!! it will at the very least give you the correct ttyS? or let you know if the modem is even available wvdial works from anywhere (exception of diald) to use type wvdial, to close ctrl c thats it! once your up and runnning then go for suseppp so you can use diald and cron as usual... see my page for the wvdial file and the suseppp scripts have fun 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 archive 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>>