Re: Problems Connecting

[nospam [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk]

> I've done /sbin/modprobe -v ppp  and it doesn't make any difference.
> ppp.o does exist in /lib/modules.  I had a chat to Paul Sims about
> this last night but all he could say was that it might be something
> to do with PAP.

My two pence: (Having never used ISDN, the accuracy may be
questionable)

You SHOULD have a ppp module that modprobes OK. In later kernels
(2.3.x, maybe some 2.2.x) the ppp subsystem was changed so that the module
names changed to ppp_generic and ppp_async. Make sure these are compiled
into the kernel.

Make sure you have something similar to this in your modules.conf:

alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
post-install ppp modprobe -k ppp_async

pppd should then work OK. Also you could try putting entries in
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets or chap-secrets. These files may be moved on SuSE,
but they should be around somewhere. Also make sure your pppd package is
up-to-date.

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