I rearranged my home office today to please my better half who is always complaining about it being cluttered and saying things like "This room would look so much better if only......" This reordering involved moving my LM8.0 computer. I did a shutdown -h now as root from an xterm and everything shutdown fine. Moved my desk and plugged my computer back in and tried to connect to the internet with "/sbin/ifup ppp0" as root like i have always done and the modem picked up the phone line and dialed the number then almost before the first ring it hung up and linux responded with a somewhat cryptic "Failed to connect (error 17)". I cant find anything that describes exactly what error 17 is supposed to mean but all the settings have stayed exactly the same. I just shutdown the computer and moved it about 2.5 feet then plugged the power cable back up and turned the power on. Then only two cables i had to disconnect were the monitor and the power cable. Never touched the phone line. Also i can boot the workstation up into winblows and the modem works just fine. My hardware: HP Vectra 5 P120 External USR 56k modem Mandrkae 8.0 (dont think the rest is really relevant to this problem) This one has me really puzzled. Thanks in advance, Ian K. Harrell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
