Problems after upgrade: RedHat9.0 to Fedora Core4

[leehinkleman]

I had planned just to see what the upgrade involved, but the 'linux text' version of the installation progressed past the point of no return, and Fedora Core 4 seemed to install OK.
Small problems found so far are:
1. kppp always finds the modem busy. The modem is an internal USR serial PCI modem, with data pump and serial controller, and it always had worked fine on /dev/ttyS4 with RedHat9.0.
2. The Network Device Control freezes when I try to activate ppp0...I have to exit out of the KDE desktop
3. As an ordinary user, kppp wouldn't let me do anything at first, asking me, 'Have you used the SUID bit?'
As root, I tried chmod 4555 kppp, in /usr/sbin
4. When used find / |grep kppp to see where it was, an error on the console told me that there was a mismatch in the number of hardlinks in the filesystem, and was using -noleaf, or something similar.


Help with any of these would be appreciated.

 

[leehinkleman]

At least kppp is dialing again for me.
The serial modem with Red Hat 9.0 had been /dev/ttyS4, but Fedora Core 4 has the modem at /dev/ttyS14, which I found from running wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf.

 

[RhythmAce]

Glad to hear you're making progress. Are you gonna upgrade to Core 5 when it comes out on the 20th?

 

[leehinkleman]

Yes, as long as I'm having fun, I might as well upgrade to Core 5. I got Core 4 for NZ$5.00 on the local New Zealand auction website, where I won a DVD reader, mostly just for Fedora. I also got SuSE 10 on DVD, but need to re-size partitions to make room for SuSE.
The exact error when I try to use 'find' is
"WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /prcc"
and a google search of that string produces pages that suggest a possible kernel bug. Maybe Core 5 will fix that!

 

[RhythmAce]

You don't need to use 'find' to locate an executable on linux. Try this:

whereis kppp

As for running both distros of linux, you don't really need to do that. At the core they are both identical. That is they use the same kernel, shell(s) and other things that makes up the linux operating system. The desktop environments are usually gnome and kde and the list of packages are almost indentical also. The diferences between the two distros and all linux distros for that matter is the directory structure and their respective package management systems. For example, some use rpm while others use yast. If you are a true blue linux purist, you use neither and choose to compile all your packages the way things were meant to be. However, in the circles of society in which I travel, you would be taken for some sort of mountain man.