On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Thanks, Mike, for this quick reply.
>
> I'll give these aliases a try in a day or so. I have to say, though, that
> I'm not that hopeful - I usually try to configure ppp support in to the
> kernel, rather than using modules. When the connection has been made, kppp
> tries to negotiate a protocol, then fails and tells me that the kernel
> does not support ppp.
>
I know absolutely nothing of kppp. Try running pppd directly so that you
have a hope of seeing what is actually going on.
You might need to create /dev/ppp, or upgrade pppd?
> I had similar messages on my laptop (2.2.14) which I eventually tracked
> down to having to configure options in 2 separate places in the config,
> I'd done one and not the other. This is why I suspect I'm missing
> something obvious in the config.
>
Er, you shouldn't need it in 2 places...
> On the other hand, 2.4.2 won't build the msdos/fat/vfat code for me if it
> is configured as built-in, but these work fine as modules, so I'll give
> modules a try.
>
What goes wrong if you build it in?
> Will let you know.
>
> Ken
>
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mike Ricketts wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> > > Lawson,
> > >
> > > can I butt in here, please ? I've tried various kernels since about
> > > 2.4.0-test6, all with pppd 2.4.0b1, but never managed to get pppd to
> > > work. Using a regular modem, my reading of the config documentation was
> > > that I only needed async ppp support. It's been a little while since I
> > > played with a kernel on that box, but I'd like to give it another go
> > > soon. Can anyone with a working pppd and 2.4 kernel clarify the ppp config
> > > options for me, please ?
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > Does this help?
> >
> > [mike@oakley ~]$ uname -a
> > Linux oakley.chf 2.4.2 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:05:17 GMT 2001 i686 unknown
> > [mike@oakley ~]$ pppd --version
> > bash: pppd: command not found
> > [mike@oakley ~]$ /usr/sbin/pppd --version
> > pppd version 2.4.0
> > [mike@oakley ~]$ ps auwwwwwx | grep pppd
> > god 6745 0.0 0.7 1816 924 ttyS0 S Mar24 0:00
> > /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/modem 57600 lock crtscts asyncmap 00000000
> > defaultroute modem connect chat -v -f
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp3
> > mike 1027 0.0 0.3 1304 468 tty3 S Mar24 0:00 grep pppd
> > [mike@oakley ~]$ grep ppp /etc/modules.conf
> > #alias ppp ppp_generic
> > #alias ppp0 ppp_generic
> > alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
> > alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
> > alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
> > alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> > alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> > alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> > alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> > post-install ppp_generic /sbin/modprobe ppp_async
> > [mike@oakley ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep ppp
> > ppp_async 6224 1
> > ppp_generic 15216 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async]
> >
> >
>
>
>
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