Ravi Kumar Tenneti rearranged electrons thusly:
> I have not tried PPP after compiling to 2.4.1 but I
> don't think you need any other pkgs.(This is only my
> assumption)
> Please update if you have got any info on this.
This is taken from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes - see what you want to
upgrade first and upgrade it. With older distros (redhat 6.2 say) you'd need
to upgrade a lot of things - and with a newer distro (mandrake 7.2 say)
modutils (and maybe one or two other packages) should do the trick.
Current Minimal Requirements
****************************
Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
running, the suggested command should tell you.
- Kernel modutils 2.1.121 ; insmod -V
- Gnu C 2.7.2.3 ; gcc --version
- Binutils 2.8.1.0.23 ; ld -v
- Linux libc5 C Library 5.4.46 ; ls -l /lib/libc*
- Linux libc6 C Library 2.0.7pre6 ; ls -l /lib/libc*
- Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.9 ; ldd --version or ldd -v
- Linux C++ Library 2.7.2.8 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libg++.so.*
- Procps 2.0.3 ; ps --version
- Procinfo 16 ; procinfo -v
- Psmisc 17 ; pstree -V
- Net-tools 1.52 ; hostname -V
- Loadlin 1.6a
- Sh-utils 1.16 ; basename --v
- Autofs 3.1.3 ; automount --version
- NFS 2.2beta40 ; showmount --version
- Bash 1.14.7 ; bash -version
- Ncpfs 2.2.0 ; ncpmount -v
- Pcmcia-cs 3.0.14 ; cardmgr -V
- PPP 2.3.10 ; pppd --version
- Util-linux 2.9z ; chsh -v
- isdn4k-utils v3.1beta7 ; isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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