My kernel is 2.4.21-4.EL. I read (deep inside the Redhat support forum) that this kernel has support for the Speedtouch modem. So rather than fuss about patching, I went back to first steps and did a clean install, bypassing all the kernel parts of Benoit Papillault's Speedtouch HOWTO, got all the way to:
# pppd call adsl This seemed fine. Then tried: # ifconfig ppp0 This gave me: ppp0: error fetching interface information: device not found. This is hardly surprising as my dev directory has ippp0 through to ippp63 and ppp but no ppp0. I ran MAKEDEV ppp and simply got ipppx0 through to ipppx63. What's going on here? I looked at messages and found that the ADSL line is working fine, but after ppp0 is started by root I get ...can't locate module tty-ldisc-14 Working backwards I found my /etc/modules.conf contains the line: Alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty So why isn't this being picked up? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gilles Espinasse > Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2003 9:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [speedtouch] Re: Not your normal Speedtouch Woes! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:51 AM > Subject: [speedtouch] Not your normal Speedtouch Woes! > > > > > > > > Well maybe this is a common problem. Like most other people, I did > > everything according to the script, but without success. However, the > > process bombed out in a way that I've not seen described elsewhere. > > > > Modprobe couldn't find the n_hdlc module. > > > > I'm a bit uncertain about this as I'm running Redhat Enterprise 3 Linux, > > which is about as recent as distros get and SOME Speedtouch > documentation > > says this is already in recent kernels. > > > What kernel version are you running? (uname -r) > You don't need to patch on recent kernel but you may need to set > CONFIG_N_HDLC=m in you kernel .config and recompile your kernel > > > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB > Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:speedtouch- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
