It is likely that you already have pppd support in your kernel. Try running pppd and take a look at the messages that come out in /var/log/messages. If you are convinced that your kernel is not compiled with PPP support, then you need to recompile the kernel from its sources. That would typically be in /usr/src/linux directory. Run "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" there and enable PPP from the drivers section. After that you need to do "make dep" followed by "make vmlinux". Copy the resulting vmlinux file to your /boot directory with a distinct name vmlinux_with_ppp or something. Create a new entry in /etc/lilo.conf (see existing stuff there). Run lilo, reboot, hit the tab key when the LILO prompt comes up and choose the boot name of the new image you have just created. And one last thing: be careful :-) Hope this helps, Koral > Chukwuma Emerenini wrote: > > Dear Sir, > Kindly investigate the following challenge. I am trying to setup 2 linux > boxes as a ppp server and client respectively. I am using Redhat linux > release 6 and kernel 2.2.5-15 on a Compaq Deskpro (pentium). I am > encountering problems compiling and building the kernel for pppd support. > First I issued the following command to load pppd: > mnt/cdrom/RedHat# rpm -ivh RPMS/ppp-2*rpm > The following message was displayed: > error: package ppp-2.3.7-2 is already installed. > Then I tried to compile the kernel by issuing the following command: > usr/doc/ppp-2.3-7# ./configure > However, the following message was displayed: > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory. > In addition, I issued the following commands from the same top-level > directory: > > usr/doc/ppp-2.3-7# make xconfig > usr/doc/ppp-2.3-7# make menuconfig > usr/doc/ppp-2.3-7# make config > > Each of the commands failed with similar error messages like: > make:*** No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop. > > Kindly tell me what to do next in order to compile and build my kernel for > pppd support. > > Thanks in anticipation for your response. > > Yours faithfully, > > Chuks > -- Koral Ilgun Software Engineer Occam Networks, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
