On 20 Jun 2001 17:02:34 -0700, JWDougherty wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2001 04:40, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Basically the subject says it all. This happens both with the stock
> > kernel and a custom build one. Any ideas?
> The topic says hardly anything.
> There has to be something more than this, otherwise few of us would be
> reading your message, or at least not in a Mandrake session.
>
> Ethernet or modem, ppc or intel?
> Have you tweaked you pppd, or is your system old and crotchety? What type of
> installation did you perform? In short, there is scarcely any information in
> your post.
I was hoping this would be a "common" problem. Here we go: Intel
home-build machine, has been happily running Mandrake 7.2 with bits from
Cooker until RPM died. I then upgraded to Mandrake 8 on a fresh disk. I
configured ppp using linuxconf, but the configuration is almost
identical to the configuration I hand-wrote in MDK 7.2. Running ifup
ppp0 returns immediately with a failure in the syslogs (sorry, I cannot
remember the wording). Running pppd from a terminal causes a kernel
panic. If anyone can understand a kernel panic debugging info, I'll
write it down tonight. I tried recompiling the kernel and it is still
broken.
Basically: normal x86 machine, normal Mandrake 8.
Anyone got any ideas? Shall I recompile pppd from sources? If I can't
get this fixed I'll have to move to RedHat, which I don't want to do
(I'll miss Cooker)
Thanks for any help,
Ross
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