Description of problem: Hi, from today on, /sbin/ifup cannot connect my computer to the internet anymore. I have a conexant HCF modem and I'm using initscripts-7.14-1. Usually when I have this kind of problem I re-install the hcfpcimodem drivers but now I even cannot re-install them anymore (That's why I think it has something to do with i18n. see later). Now, I have to use W98/IE5.0 to be able to connect to the internet. The story begans like this: I issued the command "/sbin/ifup ppp0", but it echo "Failed to activate ppp0 with error 7". After investigation, I could find that this message is thrown from ppp-watch. As usual when I have this kind of problem with my modem, I tried to re-install the hcfpcimodem drivers but this time it simply hangs while executing a gawk command. Why I think it's related to i18n? It's because I updated the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n last days trying to solve some problems with french characters at boot-time... And because of the gawk problem above. At last, I restored the original i18n file but it did'nt do the trick. Could you help me? PS: By the way, I succeded with the french characters at boot-time problem by using locales fr_FR.utf8 and font lat9w (something like that). But I still got a problem with a directory called "Stéphanie" on my shared FAT32 partition. Could you do something for that also? Waiting to read from you, Cyrille Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (here's what I did to encounter the problem as I remember) 1. update your i18n files with locale "fr_FR.utf8" and font lat9w. 2. restart your computer/shutdon your computer/restart your computer. 3. change some settings in your modem settings. 4. restart your computer. 5. /sbin/ifup ppp0 Actual results: "Failed to activate ppp0 with error 7" Expected results: connect to the internet. Additional info:
Does it behave any better if you use 'fr_FR.UTF-8'? It shouldn't, but... Error 7 does mean that it can't open the serial port, which usually does indicate a driver problem.
You might try reinstalling the hcimodem drivers with no locale set, run: export LANG=C before installing. Aside from that, the 'Error 7' does imply a driver problem; that really can't be solved in initscripts.