On 28-Jan-99 Trevor Harmon wrote:
> There has been a little bit of talk on this list about problems in PPP
> 2.3.5
> with the new 2.2.0 kernel. However, I haven't seen any specific details.
> Could
> someone please post a quick note on the steps needed to update PPP for
> the new
> kernel? (For instance, when compiling PPP under the new 2.2.0 kernel,
> should the
> "make kernel" step be skipped?)
>
> I'm asking this because I've managed to totally kill PPP on my Linux
> box. I had
> been running kernel 2.0.33 (upgraded from a RedHat 5.0 system) with PPP
> 2.2.0f
> on my ISDN line without any trouble for several months. Then, when I
> heard that
> the upcoming 2.2.0 kernel needed PPP 2.3.5, I tried to upgrade to 2.3.5.
> It
> didn't work, but I just assumed that PPP 2.3.5 needed features in the
> newer
> kernel, so I went back to PPP 2.2.0f.
I use ppp 2.3.5 with kernel 2.0.35. I had to skip 'make kernel' when
compiling ppp, so that I would not break my kernel.
--
Andrew
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