I've just updated my SuSE 9.1 via YaST from CD (kindly supplied by Volker).
Unfortunately it appears to have done something to my kpp dial up.
As said numerous times before, on SuSE, ignore that kppp even exists. There's a much better replacement for it called kinternet (and yast, smpppd, wvdial, but that's not user-visible). kppp isn't installed by default, why did you install it?
Oops..I meant say my kinternet dial up....
Now when I click on the icon to connect to the internet it drops the attempted connection within a couple of seconds.
We've been through this recently, though not on 9.2. Look at the logfile by right-clicking on the grey plug in the panel (the smaller one, the fatter one is for power management), and select "view log". What's the error?
SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.16 on linux.
Status is: disconnected
trying to connect to smpppd
connect to smpppd
Status is: disconnected
Status is: connecting
Status is: disconnected
pppd[0] died: pppd options error (exit code 2)
The update patches included a kernal update and I wonder if this is the cause of the problem.
It seems to have been on 9.1, when using a Lucent modem. Until the real problem is pinned down, the workaround there seems to be to uninstall the ltmodem driver and to reinstall it. You must reboot after upgrading the kernel. What modem do you have?
Agere Systems AC'97 Modem
It's also possible that the providers-NZ.conf file I compiled has wrong settings for some ISPs (I can't test them all). If you're using it and there's a problem with it, please let me know.
I didn't have this installed previously...but I have installed it now...thank you.
The connection still does not work...though I have not attempted to modify the original kinternet settings till I receive some feedback (with thanks) on the error log as requested.
cheers
Ralph
