On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 01:58 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote: > >> After banging my head to build a kernel with support for both scsi (why >> can this not be in the default install kernel?) and aty128 this past >> weekend (from install cd, mount /sdc5 /mnt then mount -t hfs /dev/sdb6 >> /mnt/mnt <-- interesting trick to get files from boot partition to hfs >> partition for BootX), I was able to fire up Mandrake 8.2b1. >> > > What kind of SCSI? There is support in the installer for several types, > at least I've been doing installs on the 7600 with SCSI drives somehow. > The support is modular, as is networking, etc. >
I used modprobe mac53c94 in order to bring up scsi support. Perhaps the kernel uses Mesh? >> The issue that kills me now is ppp access. I set up my network for both >> ppp and ethernet (for local filesharing only). When I try to set up >> kppp >> to access via script or terminal (required by my .edu provider; no PAP, >> etc.), kppp runs the script then tries "Logging in to the Network...", >> then drops the connection. I have used the noauth pppd command with no >> success also. >> >> The detailed error report shows "couldn't find interface ppp0: no such >> device". The modem itself is working fine, btw. From linuxconf... >> Networking... I disabled the eth0 interface with same result. BUT there >> was no ppp0 interface... I am guessing that there needs to be, but I >> thought the installer would have handled that. If there should be, what >> values are needed besides interface: ppp0? >> > > Sounds like you omitted ppp support in your home-rolled kernel. The > installer does not setup, nor does there exist a /dev/ppp0. Other folks > are successfully making ppp connections with the provided kernel. > Is there a simple way to check if ppp was installed in the kernel? I am not sure how to check that out. BTW, wouldn't my modem communication not work whatsoever if I had left out modem support? I am able to initialize, dial, bring up a terminal, send commands to the terminal, etc. Somewhere I read about the need to have the script send 'ppp' after the password, but I am not at home to try that right now. Thanks, John
