According to Jon Dowd: While burning my CPU.
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> When I attempted to dial with xisp (found it on the CD, moved it to
> the HD, installed it with the required libform, configured it to
> dial... yeah! I'm moving along here! ), The nxterm window returned
> the following message when I tried to dial my isp.
> [root@localhost /home] # xisp
> /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks support for PPP. This could be
> because the ppp kernel is not loaded, or because the kernel is not
> configured for ppp. See the README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.3 dist.
What it means is you dont seem to have (loaded) support for the PPP
protocol.
1) If you have a distribution installed kernel then you will have support,
its then a matter of loading the PPP module, that should be done automaticly
by 'kerneld' if of course kerneld is running as a process.
To find out more about PPP on your system try;
'modprobe ppp' (to load it)
'lsmod' (to see what modules are loaded)
If it is now loaded you will need to configure the interface, there are
many ways of doing that, the easyest is possably under the control pannel
(Redhat) or setup on slackware. Others are far more qualified to tell you
about configuring you modem for ppp than i, as i dont use ppp.
2) If the above fails then you will possably need to compile a custom made
kernel, read /usr/src/linux/README for futher help on this matter.
>
> OK, did I leave something out when I installed RedHat 5.1 ?
Thats a possablity but doubtfull as to that being a possable cause.
> Can I fix it without doing a complete re-install ( i.e. load the ppp
> kernel module ) ?
There is never a need to reinstall if a system is installed then that
situation would never arise.
> Where might I find that README.linux file ?
Like the error message tells you in the ppp-2.3.3 package which you will
find on your CDrom (of possably on your HD).
> ( off topic ) Has Pegasus Mail been ported to Linux ?
> Thanks so much. Jondee
>
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Regards Richard.
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