Birchall, Richard
Fri, 14 May 1999 23:44:17 -0700
Philip C. Hewitt II [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: >I have upgraded my kernel to 2.2.7 and all support files >that were available and now I can't seem to get KPPP to dial >out anymore...I receive a message from KPPP saying something >about the remote host not responding to configuration >requests...I thought the kernel might not have PPP support >but after recompiling a new one with PPP support I still was >unable to connect...I can connect from windows98 and I was >able to connnect before with the 2.0.36 kernel so I know my >modem is good...any help would be great. Try upgrading kppp to the latest version 1.6.11; this fixes some bugs (see list following). The rpm file is here (long URL): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2 /i386/kde-applications/kdenetwork-ppp-1.1.1-1rh5x.i386.rpm Richard Excerpt from the kppp 1.6.11 ChangeLog: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999-04-24 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * runtests.cpp: test for `lock' in /etc/ppp/options is not needed any- more, thanks to a hint from Paul Mackeras (pppd). Leaving away ttySx (99/04/10) from the command line and binding stdin/stdout to the device (99/01/12) stops pppd from trying to lock the device itself. 1999-04-10 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * connect.cpp: solved problems with pppd 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 * pppdata.cpp: PPPDebug() defaults to `false'. * opener.cpp: introduced MY_ASSERT macro. We don't want to see our security checks disabled by the NDEBUG flag. 1999-04-09 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modem.cpp: improved protection against socket notifier zombie as suggested by Brian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 1999-04-06 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modem.cpp: set modemfd to -1 in closetty(). * modem.cpp: block attempts to start the socket notfier if modemfd < 0. * connect.cpp: call closetty() _before_ execppp(). This should solve some of the reported timeout errors and the observed memory hogging. * modem.cpp: added stop() in closetty() (just to be sure) (all fixes above were proposed by Ian Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) * requester.cpp: setpppdRunning(false) _before_ killing the pppd. 1999-03-26 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * main.cpp: added flushX() before every command_execute() * increased maximum modem string size * store child pid in helper_pid instead of gpppdata.* (safer) 1999-03-20 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * connect.cpp: fixed "unknown speed" bug introduced in previous version 1999-03-15 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * opener.cpp: replaced regex library calls with self-written matching algorithm. This hopefully prevents the segfaults reported with SuSE and Caldera binaries. (Update: identified the assert() around regcomp() as the bug. It was left out when compiling with NODEBUG) * connect.cpp: fixed bugs of internal scripting loop. Possible symptoms: broken 'Expect' command and incorrectly parsed modem speed. 1999-03-10 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modem.cpp: dropped ISTRIP option and made everything else "8-bit clean" by using unsigned char and removing 0x7F AND'ing. Characters like [§´°äöü] will work now. * conwindow.cpp (ConWindow): initialise volinfo after discovering that this prevents a segfault with Qt2.0 (turned out to be a beta bug only) 1999-03-09 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * opener.cpp: utilize CMSG_LEN macro if present * opener.cpp: insert LF if missing at end of *-secrets file * opener.cpp: supply REG_NOSUB flag to regcomp 1999-03-05 Harri Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * requester.cpp: relaxed check for msg_controllen due to alignment problems on different hardware architectures (eg. Alphas). Proposed by Martin Ostermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * removed unused or doubled code ================== KDE 1.1 released ====================