Michael Heyes wrote: >I checked to make sure, and I did have "standard/generic (dump) serial support" >compiled into the kernel, but it was compiled in and not a module. I tried >compiling it as a module, which generated the serial.o file you mentioned below >in /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc, and the message/problem went away. So, is this a >bug? If support is compiled in the kernel, why would it try to load a module? > >One other char-major problem. When I start my ppp session with pon, I get a >"Can't locate module char-major-108". The session works ok. I tried compiling >ppp as a module instead of in the kernel (it worked with char-major-5), but >that >didn't solve anything. I did modprobe -c, but the I could only find "alias >char-major-107 3dfx", no -108 anywhere. > >Do you know what char-major-108 is supposed to be? Is it part of ppp?
Invariably, the easiest way to find out the answers to this class of questions is to look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. There, you'll find that character major 108 minor 0 is indeed /dev/ppp. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]