On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 07:10:08PM +1000, Rick Marshall wrote:
>
>
> Dan Wilder wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 01:02:01PM +1000, Matthew wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how good running 2.0.35 k ernel with its bog stock ppp
> > > that cant with the kernel src from kernel.org, Will run if i use pppd 2.3.5
> > > binaries /usr/bin/pppd (2.3.5) with the kernel running the 2.2.0 that came
> > > with the src?
> > >
> > > If anyone atleast makes sense of what I'm saying, is it workable?
> >
> > Yes, but why not upgrade the kernel ppp stuff, too?
> >
> > Subject to the ever-repeated caveats: the wrong direction of the
> > inequality in linux/ppp.c line 3079, and the failure of "make
> > kernel" to replace the kernel's ppp-2.2.0 ppp.c, with ensueing
> > pandemonium when you try to compile the kernel ...
>
> Yeah, works fine, but why the drama? this is so obvious and everyone on the
> listwho has got it working went through the same trauma.......
True. And dozens of subscribers to the list ask the same two
questions about why they've failed to get it working.
I mentioned it only on the off chance there was a new subscriber or
two since last time it got mentioned. And because I find this
situation somewhat odd. Most free software packages I've worked
with would have a correction up, for such a simple but commonly
encountered problem, by now.
The "why the" question I ask is why the ppp maintainers haven't
fixed these two extremely simple problems and put up a ppp-2.3.6.
Either
-- None of them read this list, or
-- Nobody on the list has seen fit to forward the information, or
-- They have the information but don't think it important that
hundreds of people (based on the estimate that only one in ten
will complain) are frustrated in attempting to build this package, or
-- ppp-2.3.x is not at the moment actively maintained.
I can't believe nobody has attempted to contact the maintainers.
--
Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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