Peace be upon u all,
here start all my problems, I've motorola sm56 pci modem, and Redhad 7.2 linux, and as linux-egypt explained to install the modem, I downloaded the old version kernel and installed it and recognize the modem, and I can negotiate the connection with "minicom" program. But here the problem when I use the "Kppp" dilar program, the connection terminate after dialing the number and an error message says "Kpppd died unexpectaly" and can't set "tyy" to "ppp" discplin. Can I find an answer and a solution for that problem.

Thanks everybody.

Salamo 3alaikom,

How about searching the forum a little bit? Why do you want to stick with KDE Kppp? There are alternatives to Kppp which are wvdial and many others. Wvdial ,however, has a front end in Gnome. You might not like this situation since as I can see you are a KDE user. Kppp has other problem besides this one that you are talking about which is that it allows root users to use it. I tried to put extra users in kppp.allow but this didn't work out. Another thing, Have you filled in the username and password correctly in Kppp? Make sure that you did do so. You can connect to the internet via console or via a run command . The command ifup could start up a dialup connection for you. I think that there is a command line applet for KDE, you could insert the command: ifup interface-name in such command line applet and press Enter the command is run for you. How about that solution? Hope you like it.

Salam.

Originally posted by dbasem
Peace be upon u all,and can't set "tyy" to "ppp" discplin. Can I find an answer and a solution for that problem.

Thanks everybody.
didn't understand this!

a Question please: What's your distro ?

You can try wvdial, since it's a command line tool it can give more error messages, then you can return back to kppp ;)

what's in your /var/log/messages ?

Which driver you are using ? please post what you have in /etc/modules.conf

post also what you have in /var/log/messages related to the pppd.

Did you download the driver from :

http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SM56_5.1_I386.rpm

This RPM will install :

/usr/local/sm56/sm56.lib
/usr/sbin/sm56setup
/usr/share/man/man4/sm56.4


You will need to run :

/usr/sbin/sm56setup

This script will compile the driver and produce sm56.o for the current kernel you are running.

It will :

1- Copy sm56.o to its final location
2- Create /dev/sm56
3- Create /dev/motomem
4- SymLink /dev/modem --> /dev/sm56
5- add this lines to modules.conf

alias char-major-24 sm56
options sm56 country=1
6- Run /sbin/depmod -a


If the driver is compiled successfully and setting is successfully as well you should not have any
problem.


Try to insert the modules by hand "insmod sm56"
See if there is any error msg comes out (If it is inserted already, remove it).

Last question , did you manage to get a connection up and running using other mentioned dilaers ? Or you never got any connection regrdless of the dialler (i.e. is it only Kppp dialer has wrong setting somewhere or it is a problem you have with all dialers) ?