Who would know THE answer ?

[hungarian]

I observed this behaviour under Suse 7 and Red Hat 7.

A user logs in to his account, logs into the internet through a 56k ISA hardware modem.
After a while logs out.

Now, another user logs into his/her account and trying to log into the internet, but can't.

If you reboot it works for a while then all starts again.

So what exactly is the problem ?
Anybody has any ideas ?

:(

[scott_R]

Ok, just trying to help with the basics. If you're using KDE, you might have "locking" enabled, which means only one user can connect at a time. Other than that, I'm clueless. :)

[TheMuso]

Is it possible to do this properly locally?

Have you checked the hardware and the modem itself?

[hungarian]

Well, so far no clues.
The hardware is fine on both machines since it doesn't do it any more on Red Hat 7 since I installed 2.2.18 and compiled ppp as NOT a module.
But it is still doing it on Suse 7.
Now Suse 7 only has the stock kernel that just came with it.

We are not talking about some high tech staff like 2 users concurrently logged in.

It is simply person A uses the machine for 30 minutes, then person B takes it's place in front of the same PC and tries to log in from his/ her (B's) desktop and suddenly the internet connection was gone.

But reboot the PC and person B CAN log in, only who knows who will not be able to log in next AFTER B.

Is it ppp ?
Is it a module problem ??