Reply to mail from Paul Livingstone about pppd and kernel problems
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> Thanks to everybody for the help, I do seem to be getting somewhere however
> when I carry out the following steps which I believe to be correct from the
> documentation, it still does not work.
the documentation is wrong.
> 1. decompress the pppd file stuff into a directory called /ppp-2.3.4 and
> subdirectories
first, grab 2.3.5 instead :)
> 2. from the /ppp-2.3.4 directory issue the command ./configure
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> 3. then issue the command make kernel (this gives some screen output and
> what appears to be a successful conclusion)
this is what breaks things. do -not- accomplish the `make kernel' step.
flat out skip it.
-d
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