> I am running SUSE 9.1 and until yesterday my winmodem was working > fine,.overnight I ran YaST which failed part way through due to a > dropped connection. I then installed the packages that it had > downloaded, planning to pick up the rest tonight/tomorrow etc. Great, > except that I can no longer dial out.
From other posts I take it that your kernel got updated, but not your modem driver (curse these losemodems). Kernel modules these days usually have to be recompiled when there's a kernel change. > - KInternet will no longer dial and but does not throw any > errors and I have looked at tail -f /var/local/messages without seeing > anything that looked like an error. The correct thing to do is to right-click on the kinternet panel applet and to select view log. It probably fails after a few lines with a /dev/LT... device can't be opened or similar. You could check with lsmod whether the lucent module is loaded, I suspect it isn't (which is your problem). > - kppp says it cannot open the modem but gives no hint as to why You should never need to even know kppp exists on a SuSE system. > - the modem is still working fine under windows Good check, => no hardware problems. > The only other error I have is that "/etc/resolv.conf does not exist" > but I don't know if this is relevant! Runs as root umask 022 touch /etc/resolv.conf to shut up the errors and useless logging. To fix your system, check that the latest kernel and ltmodem are kernel-default-2.6.5-7.111 ltmodem-2.6.2-38.8 (rpm -q kernel-default ltmodem) If you can get hold of the ltmodem package file by other means (e.g. another computer) you can install it with rpm -Uvh ltmodem..... and things should start working. If you can't get hold of the file, your pretty much only option is to downgrade kernel + modem driver to the same level. Copy them both from the media into some directory, then run rpm -e --nodeps kernel-default ltmodem If you use one of the other kernels, adjust commands as necessary. Warning do not reboot now - you just deleted all the boot files. Install the shipped kernel and driver: rpm -Uvh kernel-default-2.6.4-52.i586.rpm ltmodem-2.6.2-36.i586.rpm Ignore all that bootloader stuff, if lilo needs to be run, installing the kernel rpm will run it if necessary (and has done for yonks). Reboot just in case. Download both newest kernel and ltmodem (it's sufficient to download just the .patch.rpm versions). Install with rpm -Uvh ... That should be all. Always reboot after kernel upgrades. Send feedback to SuSE that YOU upgrading the kernel without the ltmodem *REALLY SUCKS*. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
