I am using S.u.S.E. 6.1 on a homegrown P166MMX, 2.1 Gb HD, 64Mb RAM. I have a bit of a strange problem with my modem. Under Win95 it was set up on COM3 (ttyS2 under linux) and worked fine under linux (I use KDE 1.1) until I re-compiled my kernel. Then I found that I no longer had more than COM1 and COM2. The message that I get when I boot my machine lists three COM ports which is fine. It then gives me another message further on into the boot sequence that only lists two which is not fine! I have been unable to find how this second configuration is being prompted. Once booted and I have logged into KDE and I start to run KPPP I have another problem with an error message that says something like 'KPPP's helper process died. Since a further execution of KPPP would be useless KPPP will quit' or words to that effect. Again this problem happened only since I recompiled my kernel. I have got round the COM problem by putting into boot.local file the following two lines: /sbin/init.d/serial stop /sbin/init.d/serial start which gives me my other port back but it does not cure my KDE problem although that only happens for the first use of KPPP after I boot; subsequent uses of KPPP are not a problem. Any ideas? Many thanks, Matthew Fairley ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
