On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Ivo Sbalzarini wrote:
> I have a problem with pppd on a SMP (dual Pentium III-450, ASUS P2B-D) Linux box. I
>used pppd 2.3.5 on my Linux (kernel 2.2.5) together with chap/pap to connect to my
>ISP. Now, I had to upgrade my system with a second processor in order to get enough
>power for some computational fluid dynamics simulations. Everything works fine,
>except pppd. As soon as I enabled SMP in my kernel (I only set SMP=1, enabled
>enhanced RTC-support and MTRR and made sure that APM is disabled and changed no other
>options), pppd failed to establish a connection. My syslog looks as follows:
>
> pppd[419]: Serial connection established.
> pppd[419]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted(1)
> pppd[419]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> pppd[419]: Exit.
Is PPP support compiled into your kernel or loaded as a module? If it's a
module, are you sure you installed the new module for your SMP kernel? I
used to use an SMP system as my dialup (PPP) gateway, so there's no reason
this shouldn't be working.
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