On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Trevor Harmon wrote:
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|Clifford Kite wrote:
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|> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Trevor Harmon wrote:
|>
|> |But then, when the new 2.2.0 kernel was released, I installed it and
|> |subsequently upgraded to PPP 2.3.5. Still no luck. I've tried changing my
|> |/etc/ppp/options file, adding the ppp-compress-xx aliases in /etc/conf.modules,
|> |and even recompiling the PPP package, but nothing works. I can't even get the
|> |ppp0 device to come up when running "ifconfig" with no parameters.
|> |
|> |If anyone would care to take a look at my configuration files and syslog output,
|> |I'd be happy to post them. Otherwise, I'd appreciate any tips on upgrading to
|> |PPP 2.3.5 with the new Linux kernel. Thanks,
|>
|> I have the 2.1.131 kernel and ppp-2.3.5 working. The ppp install "make
|> kernel" installed three header file that didn't already exist, all outside
|> the kernel tree in /usr/include/net. Ppp-2.3.5 worked without recompiling
|> the kernel after the "make kernel". There's a new kernel ppp.c and that
|> pesky bug with the 2.0.x kernels has finally been consigned to oblivian.
|
|Hmm, now I'm a little confused. You say that "make kernel" installs three header
|files that didn't already exist. In another message, however, Andrew (Pollywog)
|claims that "make kernel" broke his kernel source tree somehow. Is it OK to skip
|"make kernel" and avoid those three header files since they are not in the main
|kernel source tree?
|
|Also, I am going to try blowing all of the source trees away and recompiling
|everything from scratch. This is the plan:
|
|1. Untar the Linux 2.2.0 sources.
|2. Untar the PPP 2.3.5 sources.
|3. Skip the PPP "make kernel" step and go directly to PPP's "make" followed by "make
|install"
|4. Build and install the Linux kernel.
|5. Reboot and happily run PPP with the new kernel.
This will work for 2.1.131 and if there are no changes w.r.t ppp from this
to 2.2.0, then it should work for it too. If the kernel is already
compiled for ppp support then it shouldn't even need to be recompiled.
I don't know what the new header files are for but AFAIK the kernel takes
no code from outside the kernel source tree.
Since Andrew's kernel source tree appear broken from the ppp install,
perhaps there are significant ppp related code changes. But for 2.1.131
compiling and installing ppp-2.3.5 worked for me.
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