i had redhat 9 installed and my modem was working fine but i installed suse 9 and it doesnt even see it any help would be welcome

That's odd as that is the one thing that SUSE 9 did do right but not the first try only on the second install.
I on the other hand got Suse 8.1 to find my USB printer no problem but 9 can't seem to find it at all.

Did you wipe the disk before installing Suse? or do you have two versions of linux on the same machine now. That could be part of the problem.

Additionally I have to have the applet either kinternet or qinternet and it's little window showing, click on it and the plug lights up but nothing happens then if I open email program[s] or a browser the connection begins and all is well. I don't know why this works but it was the way I could get it to work for me.

During install there was a moment when the program checked and tested the modem itself and that was kind of interesting except that it then wanted to update all the files and that HAS NEVER WORKED for me with SUSE.

Hope this might help.
j

Try using yast & setting it on ttyS4. That worked for me with suse 8.2.

iam using kppp to try to dial and i installed on a new drive just pulled it out of the box a nice 120gb western digital sata drive and i did try setting it on ttyS4 with yas and still no go everything else works perfect i just need to be able to get on the net

I had problems with kppp so I used kinternet instead & it worked fine. Have you tried kinternet?

still no go i just dont get it hmmmm anyone have any ideas

madcow007,
Maybe this is a silly question but, did you use the driver that USR has on their website? SUSE has an option on Yast to extract programs from other sources.

Please let me know.

no i havent been able to find a drive i tried using there search function but it found nothing when entering the model number then i just searched all linux drivers went through about 3 pages a nic drivers and such but still havent ran across a driver for my modem but i was assuming that since redhat would auto detect it and install it that suse should do the same could you please point me in the correct direction for the driver

I was having some difficulty with Suse 9 and my USR5610b as well. It was detected and listed in the device manager under the "unknown" section but I couldn't get Kinternet to use it. I discovered by reading the boot sequence really fast that it was in fact on "ttyS4", but "ttyS4" wasn't listed in Kinternet's configuration dropdown menu. I had to type "ttyS4" into the field. Once I did that Kinternet connected to the net without further problems. Hope that helped someone.

MM

PS under suse my internet connection is 100% reliable (sometimes windows won't even connect) and faster than when in windows.