At last the settings I give during install find their way to the config files. Thanks.
At end of init (Ctrl+Alt+F1 to bypass stupid too early dm start), message "SIOCDELRT: No such process" and FAILED against "Internet connection to start at boot" (ADSL). When KDE has started, gkrellm shows that ppp0 is up, but I can't connect to anything on the net. So I do a # service internet stop Stopping internet connection if needed: [ OK ] and # service internet start Checking internet connections to start at boot ...nothing # /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up SIOCDELRT: No such process Starting ADSL connection:BLOCK1: Connection timed out # speedtouch-doctor You are using linux kernel version 2.4.19-5mdk Support for USB is OK Preliminary USB device filesystem is OK UHCI support is OK /dev/ppp is OK HDLC support is OK HDLC support is OK (no bug) pppd version 2.4.1 You are using pppd version (untested) No existing PPP connection... trying to make one (please wait) ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Inappropriate ioctl for device Cannot make a PPP connection: Fatal Aug 25 03:42:59 penguin kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout I know nothing about ioctl but suspect it is kernel-based. I'm using the stock beta4 kernel (ignore the sig below - I'm on my gentoo box because it has internet connection). -- Gentoo Linux (portage-2.0.28). KDE: 3.0.3 Qt: 3.0.5 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 513MB Kernel: 2.4.19-win4lin. GCC 2.95.3 Linux user #275590 (http://counter.li.org/). up 8:07. #=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=#