Howard and Joyce Yates wrote: > Having confirmed that my dark grey modem is showing both lights green when I > boot Suse I can also > report the following responses to helpful suggestions. > > 1 There is an icon in the system tray resembling a 2-pin plug with curved > cable. The tool tip text is > 'plugged in'. > > 2 If I try to open Firefox I get the message 'www.novell.com could not be > found'. > > 3 ping 68.142.226.54 generates the message 'network is unreachable'. > > 4 /var/log/messages for this evening has the following lines: > > May 9 20:04:19 linux smpppd[6453]: smpppd version 1.59 started
What's this smpppd? Have you started some service that uses ppp? It may be blocking the bootscripts attempts to connect. Have you set up the bootscript to run properly? ls -l /etc/init.d/dial cat /etc/init.d/dial Did you run `insserv dial'? Andy Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
