Got a quick question. My mother just installed 9.3. With 9.1, her
smartlink modem worked fine, but she couldn't get it to connect to the
internet, so she calls me. I have her look at the config files and
there are a bunch of connecting/disconnected and at the end it says
"pppd died" and "exit code 2". That's when she uses the plug icon in the tray.
Disconnected
Trying to connect to smpppd
Connect to smpppd
Status is disconnected
Status is connecting
Status is disconnected
pppd[0] died: pppd options error (exit code 2)

I had her try KPPP and this is what she got:

You don't have suficient permission to run
/usr/sbin/pppd
Please make sure that pppd is owned by root and has the SUID bit set

I had her check /usr/sbin/pppd, and it's owned by root and is set 'x' for all users. Any ideas on what could be wrong? I have no where to go on this because I don't use SUSE and I don't connect to pppd so I've never had to troubleshoot it. Like I said before, 9.1 worked out of the box, 9.3 isn't. Thanks.

Yeah, I have been facing the same prob that your mother has now. I have upgraded to 9.3 from 9.1, since I've got bugs due to faulty CD sets(No.3 CD).....

I was using Slmodem and configured it accordingly...it worked very well until I upgraded to 9.3.....that's nightmare and almost two weeks passed...

Solution:...give up internal modem now! then squeeze your pocket and come out extra $$$$...purchase external modem!, which will give you sweet dreams immediately.

I've purchased Aztech 56K external modem(EM3950 just two days ago and on the same everything was settled.
no "cd"...no "makefile"....no " unpack"...no "gzip..."....no "command"...after that, sound sleep!

Just connect this modem, following the attached instruction and turn on your PC....then go to Yast and Network devices....modem....AT modem....then click configure....that's all.

Hope you try it.

Newbie
John nomad

If you have an internal modem you might want to look at this:

http://www.linmodems.org/

An other try could be this: Go to YAST -> Modems -> configure. At one page it has a button "dumb mode" or some such. Toggle it from the setting it has now and retry. Good luck.

So, pretty much SUSE screwed it up somewhere between 9.1 and 9.3? Well, her birthday is soon...I guess I know what to get her. OK, I'm not that bad...I'll get her that too

I'm wondering something. If I have her do a clean install of 9.1 then the upgrade to 9.3, will that upgrade affect the modem at all? I know for sure that 9.1 works with the modem out-of-the-box. Just an idea.

Hi,

can you run it as root (not su) in a console or even better at bash. This should work. The only problem is, that you have to log in as root all the time.
Bad,but working workaround: try to get a working link in /usr/bin or move the whole file frome /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. I am not really sure what the resons for a root only access are but I am sure there are some.
At least it worked for me.
Flo

Hello everybody,

I'm surfing now on SuSE 9.3 with my internal smartlink softmodem so i suppose you could do the same. I use Kinternet to dial and I have configured the modem with Yast only. Be sure the smartlinkmodem rpm is installed.
I have the modem device as /dev/ttySL0
If you don't have this try (as root)

/etc/init.d/slmodemd start

It should load the kernel modules and create the device.
Then try to start Yast and see if it find the modem. If it does remember to set the "Stupid mode" on.

Here is my /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-modem0

BOOTPROTO='none'
DIALCOMMAND='ATDT'
DIALPREFIX=''
DIALPREFIXREGEX=''
INIT1=''
INIT2=''
INIT3=''
INIT8='ATM1'
INIT9=''
MODEM_DEVICE='/dev/ttySL0'
PPPD_OPTIONS=''
PROVIDER='provider0'
SPEED='57600'
STARTMODE='manual'
UNIQUE='KBSt.mWoErOCx9K0'
USERCONTROL='yes'

and this is my /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/provider0

ASKPASSWORD='no'
AUTODNS='yes'
DEFAULTROUTE='yes'
DEMAND='no'
DSLSUPPORTED='no'
FIREWALL='yes'
IDLETIME='0'
IPADDR=''
ISDNSUPPORTED='no'
MODEMSUPPORTED='yes'
MODIFYDNS='yes'
MODIFYIP='yes'
PASSWORD='mypass'
PHONE='5550599101010'
PROVIDER='Libero'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STUPIDMODE='yes' <---------------- check this!
USERNAME='my_username'

Hope this helps.

Where did you but that modem at? About how much does it cost?

Hi, there.
Actually I bought it at a small computer shop in my neighbourhood...just nearby...while I was taking a walk...Aztech brand, external modem(probably OEM product), which was made in Singapore...in 1998, left behind at small corner shelf...maybe nobody has noticed for a long time...the cost is about US$24 to 25...after 20% discount. (However, Slmodem is about US$7.00, of course OEM product...)
I checked Driver CD....they never specified "Linux"...I could see Window 98...XXXX...XP.. only....no "Linux" at all!....but it so far works...I can get connection very fast.
I hope you can find it somewhere nearby your vicinity. Please check it out.
john nomad

Hi everyone,

I am having the same problem when I try to connect my VX4400 CDMA modem via USB.

In windows, I am able to use my VX4400 as a modem. Doesn't want to work in SuSE Linux 10.0.

I am using KDE and KInternet. I have an IBM R40 laptop with an AC'97 internal modem and a VX4400 cell phone with a CDMA modem. When I initially tried to use the modems, linux told me I had to install smartlink-softmodem drivers, which I did. I've tried the following rpm packages but I still get the same error:

smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-3.2.i586.rpm
smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-3.2.i586.patch.rpm
smartlink-softmodem-2.9.10-17.i586.rpm

Still the same error from KInternet Log:

SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.59 on linux.
Status is: disconnected
trying to connect to smpppd
connect to smpppd
Status is: disconnected
Status is: connecting
Status is: disconnected
pppd[0] died: pppd options error (Exit code 2)

Has anyone else had this problem and willing to share the fix?
Honestly, I don't see why anyone would go out and buy an external modem for a machine that has a perfectly good modem installed. My computer is a laptop and buying an external modem would, to me, defeat the purpose of being "mobile".

Thanks in advance.

Tom