On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, David Hart wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> > So nothing's actually broken, because I still connect and it works fine,
> > but kppp continues to tell me it's broken no matter what. Not a big deal,
> > but annoying. Can anyone tell me why it's doing that and how to make it
> > stop?
>
> I don't have a solution, but I have had exactly the same problem since
> building a custom 2.2.13 final on my LM 6.1 w/ everything install. On my
> system, I only get the message the first time I use KPPP after a reboot. Seems
> that once the ppp_deflate module has loaded, it doesn't give the message. Also
> doesn't give the message if I'm root the first time I run it.
>
> --
> David Hart
> Vincity Design
> *Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
I've read on one of the other NG's (alt.os.linux.mandrake?) that this happens
because of the method that kppp uses to determine whether the current running
kernel has ppp support or not. Apparently, it's exploiting a bug in the
kernel that was fixed with the 2.2.13 release. There's nothing on the kde.org
web site to either confirm or deny this, so YMMV.
Regarding Davids comment about ppp_deflate, this would indicate that it may be
possible to circumvent the problem by doing a "insmod ppp_deflate" in your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local.
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