Today, while working in Xwindow, my keyboard locked up. I couldn't type anything in any window even though the system was fine. I was forced to hit the reset button (first mistake). When the system rebooted, it checked the hard drive and found many problems, which it fixed. The system seemed fine after that. I was able run X and do my usual work. However, when I tried to dial up my ISP, the troubles began. pon dials correctly, and a connection is usually made. ifconfig says that all is well and I have been assigned an IP address. However, I can not ping or access any outside site. The error I receive from ping is that sendto is not allowed. If I use kppp, I get a little more information. The connection is fine until it tries to start pppd. Then it can't start it. The error is that it can't find ppp0 the device doesn't support this interface. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the ppp package, but still have the same error. I am running slink, and have finally got things the way I like them. Can this problem be fixed?
Amy Anuszewski p.s. for future reference, if the keyboard goes out on me again, is there a better way to reboot?
