Works for me with 2.3.23 and ppp-2.3.10.
Took care of the following error.
diald[1297]: pppd startup timed out. Check your pppd options. Killing
pppd.
Ray O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 22 Oct 1999 16:16:47 +0400
From: "really [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: diald and ppp under 2.3.18
Mike Jagdis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > diald uses ioctl PPPIOCGUNIT on terminal device to get the ppp unit
> > number attached to the terminal. In the new ppp driver there is no
> > such ioctl in ppp_async.c. I solved the problem so far by simply
> > adding this ioctl to ppp_async, but I am not quite sure it is a good
> > solution. Is there any another method to deal with this problem, or
> > this ioctl was simply forgotten?
> This is essential. Without it only pppd can know what unit was
> allocated for a particular line. Without knowing the unit we
> cannot know which interface we have just started.
Ok, then something like the following patch can be applied.
--
Fedor Bezrukov E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Physics Department of MSU http://www.inr.ac.ru/~fedor/
Institute for Nuclear Research Tel: 135-20-51
--- orig/linux/drivers/net/ppp_async.c Thu Sep 2 16:17:46 1999
+++ linux/drivers/net/ppp_async.c Fri Oct 22 16:13:41 1999
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
struct ppp_channel chan; /* interface to generic ppp layer */
int connected;
+ int index;
unsigned char obuf[OBUFSIZE];
};
@@ -387,6 +388,7 @@
if (err != 0)
break;
ap->connected = 1;
+ ap->index = val;
break;
case PPPIOCDETACH:
err = -ENXIO;
@@ -394,6 +396,14 @@
break;
ppp_unregister_channel(&ap->chan);
ap->connected = 0;
+ err = 0;
+ break;
+ case PPPIOCGUNIT:
+ err = -ENXIO;
+ if (!ap->connected)
+ break;
+ if (put_user(ap->index, (int *) arg))
+ break;
err = 0;
break;
--
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Institute for Nuclear Research Tel: 135-20-51
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--- orig/linux/drivers/net/ppp_async.c Thu Sep 2 16:17:46 1999
+++ linux/drivers/net/ppp_async.c Fri Oct 22 16:13:41 1999
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
struct ppp_channel chan; /* interface to generic ppp layer */
int connected;
+ int index;
unsigned char obuf[OBUFSIZE];
};
@@ -387,6 +388,7 @@
if (err != 0)
break;
ap->connected = 1;
+ ap->index = val;
break;
case PPPIOCDETACH:
err = -ENXIO;
@@ -394,6 +396,14 @@
break;
ppp_unregister_channel(&ap->chan);
ap->connected = 0;
+ err = 0;
+ break;
+ case PPPIOCGUNIT:
+ err = -ENXIO;
+ if (!ap->connected)
+ break;
+ if (put_user(ap->index, (int *) arg))
+ break;
err = 0;
break;
