--PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 242) Newbie #61

2001-12-21 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, posting this under new Subject. Any ideas? What does exit code 242 say? All the best for the festive season Ian Ian Balchin Grahamstown, South Africa.

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-23 Thread Jonathan Crowe
Hi John. I have done as you suggested and restored my /etc/ppp/options file to the original. I then ran pppconfig and entered all my info. I was a little worried that it didn't ask for my nameservers but I decieded to leave my setings in /etc/resolv.config and it seems to be working. I also

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-23 Thread john
Jonathan Crowe writes: I was a little worried that it didn't ask for my nameservers but I decieded to leave my setings in /etc/resolv.config and it seems to be working. pppconfig checks /etc/resolv.conf. If it exists and has nameservers it doesn't ask for new ones. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-21 Thread john
Jonathan Crowe writes: To start up pppd I just typed pppd at the # With the result that pppd tried to make a connection to the console, since you didn't tell it what else to do. Won't work. The right way to start pppd on a Debian 2.0 system is to type 'pon', which is a script which calls pppd

PPP daemon has died

1998-11-20 Thread Jonathan Crowe
back with a message saying PPP daemon has died (exit code = 1). When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying This system lacks kernel support for ppp. This seems straight forward enough however when I installed the system I made sure to choose ppp in the configure modules

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-20 Thread john
Jon writes: When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying This system lacks kernel support for ppp. Don't believe it. This one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-20 Thread Jonathan Crowe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon writes: When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying This system lacks kernel support for ppp. Don't believe it. This one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. When I try to start up pppd from the