[Westwales] Another fix please!

[Robert Savage]

Hi again chaps,

There is another little problem Suse 10.0 will not give me use of the modem 
unless I reinstall it every time.  It's an external one on ttyS0.  The 
default application for internet connection is Kinternet,  which I was not 
impressed with as it gave no feedback as to what was going on.  Not a problem 
for boadbanders but with us simple 56k chappies we like to have full control 
so that inverse Robin Hood... er sorry BT don't any more vast profit than is 
necessary :-)

I prefer Kppp and have installed that on the desktop but on trying to connect 
I get "unable to open modem".  If I then install the modem in Yast it will 
work but only for that session, on reboot I'm back to square one.  After 
installing the modem a link "@modem" appears in the /dev but this disappears 
on reboot.  Anyone any idea what I should be doing or whereabouts in the 
config files I should be fiddling?

By the way Steve, I have four machines here networked together but have never 
managed to network "cross platform" as it were.  I gave up and had to resort 
to networking in Windows only 'cause it was simple to set up.  One of these 
days when I get time I will revisit the problem.  In the mean time a USB 
Stick is a darned useful thing :-)

Regards

Bob