It's not just you. A couple of days ago I decided that I had pretty much butchered my Debian installation (which I had installed close to a year previous), so I decided to do the whole reformat/reinstall maneuver (after backing up my /home directory, of course). As I now have the Debian 2.0 CDs, the process was pretty painless. After I got everything installed, I immediately downloaded, installed and ran apt-get, and promptly upgraded to Slink, just as I had done when Slink first went stable. And now I can't use any of the >2.0.x kernels AND have ppp work. I've tried everything that has been mentioned in this thread, recompiling, moving back to the 2.2.7 kernel, which had just been working fine on my previous Slink installation, etc all to no avail. This is really driving me batty, but I thought you might like to know (Kris) that it isn't just your machine. I've just about decided to try a complete reformat/reinstall, as I've run out of just about all other options. I also thought about just using the 2.0.36 kernel, but as I have a dual PPro system the SMP performance just isn't there.
Oh yes, something else I forgot to mention. I also put the proposed-updates link in my sources.list file, and upgraded to the packages present at that location. As I had not done this previously, I suspect this is where the problem is, so I'm thinking about reinstalling, upgrading, and then NOT upgrading again with the proposed-updates. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem? >At 08:32 16/05/1999 +0000, you wrote: > >I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command is > > > >exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 lock modem crtscts \ > > asyncmap 0 defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT > >pppd --version > >(pppd version 2.3 patch level 5) > > > >egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options > >domain mindspring.com > >mru 1500 > >mtu 1500 > >name <login-name> > > > > I don't recall making any changes to the above when going to the 2.2.x > >kernel. The only differences I can see are what i show above. > >Nope. None of that makes any difference. I've now tried downgrading to >PPP(d) 2.3.5, and upgrading to 2.3.8. I don't think it's anything to do >with DNS, but here are a few things: > ># cat /etc/resolv.conf >domain globalnet.co.uk # <- Tried with, without, >search globalnet.co.uk # <- and combinations of. >nameserver 194.126.82.5 >nameserver 194.126.86.9 > ># /etc/hosts >127.0.0.1 splodge localhost loopback >Minus loopback, no change. Splodge is current hostname. > ># /etc/inetd.conf >discard daytime time talk >ntalk shell login exec >smtp ident > >inetd.conf shouldn't matter if it works in 2.0.36. > >Someone might need a good LARTing over this.... but it's probably just me. > >Still seeking help on this... > >Thanks, > Kris > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >