Thanks Clifford.. as it happens i drove down to the site where i keep the
machine and rebooted it and its ok now.... up for 8 months without a hitch
then this.. still very good... tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Clifford Kite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 April 2000 14:40
To: Tom Heyworth
Cc: Linux-Ppp (E-mail)
Subject: Re: ppp problems - ioctl(TIOSETD(PPP))
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Tom Heyworth wrote:
|after a year or more of faultless operation including a couple of upgrades
|my Redhat 6.1 PPP server is comming up with the following when i try to
|start ppp... any clues would be welcome...
|
|[tom@ICC2 tom]$ ppp
|ioctl(TIOCSETD(PPP)): Invalid argument(22)
|/usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be
|because
|
|the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
|included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a
|module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'. If that fails, check t
It means that pppd couldn't set the PPP line discipline for the modem's
device file. This might be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded and
there is no kernel support compiled directly into the kernel, just as the
message says.
I understand that it can also mean that something is wrong with the device
file, /dev/ttySx x=whatever for the modem's serial port, perhaps that it
has been damaged in some way. I haven't had this problem and can't really
suggest anything specific to look for although I'd probably start with
ls -l /dev/ttySx, setserial /dev/ttySx, and perhaps stty < /dev/ttySx.
Something out of the ordinary, say, as compared to other serial port
device files, might help understand what has happened.
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Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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