I'd suggest giving up and using Windows for the rest of your life. Just kidding.
Andy Rowland wrote: > This is when all tutorials that I read fell apart. Some had this piece > of information, some did not. Irrelevant really cos they are > instructions which are apparently erroneous or at least lacking in > necessary detail. The exact line said: > > "Set smpppd in runlevel 3 & 5 on active (enabled)" > > So I found the Runlevel editor in the system menu of Yast, scrolled down > to smpppd, which had absolutely no mention of a level 3 or 5 (or any > other level for that matter) and had one option which could enable it or > disable it. It was already set to enabled. I've no idea how important > the level 3 or 5 business is, but there is no mention of it in the place > that was stated in the tutorial I was following. Runlevels 3 and 5 are multi-user non-graphical and multi-user graphical, respectively. I'm not sure what The SuSE Way is to add startup scripts to your runlevels are, but it sounds like the graphical tools are coming up short. Somebody who's more familiar with SuSE would probably be able to clue you in on the command line tools to fix this. BTW, that seems to be the theme here. Generally, system administration is still easier from the command line. You just have to invest a little time to learn them. I expect the tutorials you found will work, as long as you do all your work without graphical config tools. > Next line was: > > "Open : System - Kernel - MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT > > Enter the following module : pppoatm" > > So I went into the /etc/sysconfig editor where I did not see any 'Open' > command. Only a pull-down menu for 'Current Selection: Setting of:' > which was greyed out. Beneath were Search, Abort and Finish buttons. > So obviously I clicked search, and searched for MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT. > And sure enough a line appeared saying exactly that, located in > /etc/sysconfig/kernel, with instructions saying "If you see the item you > want, select it then click Go To." So I selected it as instructed so > that it was highlighted blue and then firmly pressed the left mouse > button over the words 'Go to', where I was promptly taken to the exact > same screen as before (with the greyed out pull-down menu and massive > empty grey area underneath and the 3 buttons). I tried again and again, > nothing happened. I tried restarting the computer etc, no luck. > > So I searched for this mysterious file myself. I opened it up with > Emacs (the 'Kernel' file I mean in /etc/sysconfig), found the area which > said MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT and, not really knowing quite what I was > doing, added the line pppoatm after the only instruction which was > listed underneath the immense array of comments in that section, so that > the line read: > > ACPI_DSDT="pppoatm" > > Now I have absolutely no idea what this means, or if it is what would > have ended up in that file had the instructions I'd been following > actually worked, or if it is even necessary as this information wasn't > included in some other instructions I had read online. Like I said I'm > what you'd call a hardcore n00b. This sounds closer to what you need to do, though I have my doubts as to whether the changes stuck. Were you logged in as root in X, or as some other user? Usually unprivileged users can't change system files. > All I know is that the modem works fine with Windows XP (installed on > the exact same machine), and when it is plugged into the USB port of the > computer while SuSE is running, the 2 lights are a solid green, the ISP > details are correct, my username and password are correct, and having > followed all the instructions to the letter (or as far as was in my > power to do so), when I opened up Konqueror to try and visit a webpage > (www.amazon.com for example) I got a message saying: > > "An error occurred while loading http://www.amazon.com: > > Unknown host www.amazon.com" It may very well be that smpppd just wasn't started at that point, and everything else was fine, but I can't be sure. > Due to my n00bity I have no idea whether this is because the modem isn't > set up correctly, the Konqueror explorer isn't set up correctly, or > anything else it could be... Nor do I even know how to properly check > if I am connected to the internet (apart from trying a webpage in > Konqueror). I mean like in Windows XP you'd type in ipconfig in the cmd > prompt to see if you're connected to a network or the internet, so that > even if retarded Internet Explorer isn't set up right for whatever > reason, you know you're connected and it's a Microsoft settings problem. > I know in Linux there's that ifconfig which I've tried. But I've no > idea what it's meant to say if you are connected and if you're not. For each interface, if you see the words UP and RUNNING, it should be working. If you see that for your DSL interface, then you may just have issues with your DNS servers. ping is an excellent command to see what your network connections can see. man ping to learn more. You might also want to read up on the networking bits of this list's FAQ. Chad Martin ------------------------ Yahoo! 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