Hello: Sorry, but this is going to be a little bit long. I have the following problem in my openSUSE 11.2 system: I have an ADSL internet connection where I have login name and password for authentication. For the connection I created a DSL device and a provider in yast. The DSL device is configured as: PPP Mode: PPP over Ethernet, Activate device: On hotplug, and Enable device control for non-root users via kineternet option is enabled. The network card is configured in yast as follows: Network Settings/Overview window: name: xxx ethernet controller, IP Address: none device name: eth0 started automatically at boot Network Settings/Global options window: Traditional method with ifup enable IPv6 DHCP Client Identifier: left empty Hostname to send: AUTO Change default route via DHCP: not checked Network Settings/Hostname-DNS and Routing windows: default values Network Card Setup/Address window: No IP Address is (for Bonding Devices) is selected everything else is off/blank Network Card Setup/General window: Activate device: on hotplug Assign interface to firewall zone: External zone Network Card Setup/Hardware window: device name: eth0 After setting everything as above and clicking OK the network is set up, and the ADSL connection is made automatically. Network works well. I can hang up connection and can reconnect using kinternet. In kinternet/check connection everything seems to be OK, own address, name server address etc. But the problem is: When I turn the computer off and boot it again, the network is not getting configured, and I can not make the ADSL connection to the network. If I dial with kinternet its log says: pppd[0]: error sending pppoe packet: Network is down /var/log/messages has these lines: Oct 4 21:19:29 pc ifup: dsl0 name: DSL Connection Oct 4 21:19:29 pc pppd[3287]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Oct 4 21:19:29 pc kernel: [ 71.422239] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Oct 4 21:19:29 pc pppd[3287]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5 Oct 4 21:19:29 pc pppd[3287]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. Oct 4 21:19:29 pc kernel: [ 71.449577] NET: Registered protocol family 17 Oct 4 21:19:29 pc pppd[3287]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Oct 4 21:19:29 pc pppd[3287]: error sending pppoe packet: Network is down Oct 4 21:19:29 pc pppd[3287]: error receiving pppoe packet: Network is down ifconfig shows this: # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:16031 (15.6 Kb) TX bytes:16031 (15.6 Kb) Even the commands # rcnetwork restart, or # rcnetwork start does not make any change. But if I go to yast network settings and leave everything as is and click OK the network is restarted and works again. What can be the problem, and how could I fix it? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org