Hi all,
Im currently trying to connect my newly born Linux box to the net and was
disappointed to find that the version of Slackware that I had installed
2.0.34, does not contain PPP support. Once I had got over my
dissapointment, I thought all I needed to do was to download the module
ppp.o a mere 25K, and insmod the module.
After much head scratching and wondering why I wasn't able to insmod the
module, I stumbled across a document which said that before I could even
attempt to load the ppp module, I would need to get a hold of the ppp
daemon code and compile it into a new kernel. Nightmare!! As I was trying
to avoid recompiling kernels at this tender stage in my Linux education.
Anyway I decided that there was nothing else for it and what the hell, even
if I totally screwed up, I could still get back to where I was before I
tried the new kernel business.
OK I then downloaded the linux source code from the web to go in my
/usr/src directory and extracted it into the usr/src/linux directory.
Following the pppd readme , I stepped through the sequence until it was
time to build a new kernel. I did a make config , chose the appropriate
choices,(basically I chose everything networkey and left the rest to its
default setting more or less). Then I did a make dep and a make clean. Now
its time to make zimage. I now get the message
*** no rule to make target zimage. Stop
OK so I spend a few more days reading and searching through usenet posts
and try the following
Make zdisk (runs for a while , even without a floppy in the drive and
fails due to some pppd type errors)
Make as above
Make vmlinuz as for zimage
Right now I think my next test will be to just try and recompile a kernel
without ppp support and see if I can do that or alternatively switch to a
kernel with ppp support built in. Any advice will be gratefully received.
TIA
Paul.
