am currently working on Suse 9.3 and i have sm56 motorola internal modem and i can't connect to the internet. what should i do to make kppp detect my modem (by "query modem" funtion).

The SM56 is a "softmodem" - proprietary drivers from the manufacturer are required. Fortunately Motorola provides those for Linux; you can find them here:

http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm

The "SuSE 9.0" drivers should work for you - just choose whether you have an AMD or Intel based processor.

Thanks for your reply. I've tested the motorolla driver before posting the previous message but it does not work. i try to figure out what the problem and i'll post the solution (if i succeed) on the forum.

i have also tried to install those drivers under suse 9.0 without success , if you come up with a solution please tell us.
Thanks

You must have the kernel version specified below to use the driver.

To find out what kernel you have type uname -r

* RedHat 7.3 (kernel version 2.4.18-3, sm56-06.05.00-1.rh7.i386.rpm)
* RedHat 8.0 (kernel version 2.4.18-14, sm56-06.05.00-1.rh8.i386.rpm)
* RedHat 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.20-8, sm56-06.05.00-1.rh9.i386.rpm)
* Mandrake Linux 9.2 (kernel version 2.4.22-10mdk, sm56-06.05.02-1.mdk.i586.rpm)
* Mandrake Linux 10.0 (kernel version 2.6.3-7mdk, sm56-06.05.02-2.mdk10_263-7.i586.rpm)
* Suse Linux 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.21, sm56-06.05.02-1.suse90-020421-99.athlon.rpm)
* Suse Linux 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.21, sm56-06.05.02-1.suse90-020421-99.i586.rpm)