On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Joe Jenkins wrote:
|I have set up Mgetty (1.1.21) and pppd 2.3.10 on a Linux-Mandrake box (6.0)
|for use as a dial in server.
|When trying to connect from a Win98 machine via dial-in, I get the
|following:
|
|
|Linux webserver 2.2.9-19mdk #7 SMP Thu Oct 28 09:23:35 MDT 1999 i686 unknown
|
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver pppd[1669]: pppd 2.3.10 started by LOGIN, uid 0
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver pppd[1669]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not
|permitted(1)
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver pppd[1669]: tcsetattr: Operation not permitted
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver pppd[1669]: Exit.
|Oct 28 12:31:57 webserver kernel: registered device ppp0
This is a pure guess. Is is possible that the PPP module is not loading
fast enough and that is the reason that the kernel refuses to give pppd
a PPP interface?
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