Oops! I notice in the gcc command I gave below that in part of the line is a different kernel number from the one you now have. I've corrected the error in the quoted message below. I also assumed you have a machine that uses i686 architecture, though I don't know if it matters for this particular compilation.
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Steven J. Yellin wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:31:27PM -0800, Pat wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have seen some messages of this type before but i > > > have yet to find a solution.. here's hoping i get one! > > > > > > I am having two problems with ppp in Red Hat 7.1 > > > First, > > > when i establish a ppp connection, my messages log > > > shows the error > > > modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21 > > > I read that i need to alias bsd_comp for that name, > > > however my kernel 2.4.18-18.7.x doesn't have this > > > module installed. What can i do? > > To remove that message put the following in /etc/modules.conf > > alias ppp-compress-21 off > > > Apparently RedHat once included bsd_comp in its standard > configuration, but now does not. So you have to compile it yourself. > I tried something like what I'm about to describe, but with RedHat7.2 > and a more recent kernel. > The source is in kernel-source-2.4.18-18.7.x.i386.rpm, though you may > want to instead get a more recent kernel-source and make yourself a > whole new kernel. I'll assume you don't want to go quite so far, and > just want bsd_com. After you've installed kernel-source, go to the > /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory, do > > make mrproper > cp config/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config .config > > Then edit .config so that the line "# CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP is not set" > becomes "CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m", do > > make oldconfig > make dep > > The "make dep" command will compile lots of stuff which you don't really > care about, but this at least should work. I think it really only is > needed to get the .h files needed for bsd_comp, and there's probably an > easier way to do this. Maybe it would now work to do "make modules", > but to just make the module you want, do "cd drivers/net", then do the > one line command (avoiding this command is one reason you might want to > make a whole new kernel): > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.7.x/include -Wall \ > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \ > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 \ > -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include \ > /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.7.x/include/linux/modversions.h -nostdinc -I \ > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include \ > -c -o bsd_comp.o bsd_comp.c > > This should produce a file bsd_comp.o which you can copy to > /lib/modules/2.4.18.7x/kernel/drivers/net. If you want to try using > this module without rebooting, you probably should do "depmod -a" > before making sure modules.conf is what you want and then establishing > a ppp connection. > > -- Steven Yellin _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
