Re: How does one use the new ppp modules (2.3.13) ? (and other problems)

Rene Blokland (reneb@renux.aais.nl)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:13:21 +0000


On 11 Aug 1999 08:40:52 , Richard Ketchersid <ketchers@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>I have installed pppd-2.3.9 ( the very latest I could find ). It just
>informs me that my kernel has no ppp. So I added "alias ppp ppp_generic"
>to /etc/conf.modules, this did not help. I went and added back ppp.o to
>MX_OBJS in drivers/net/Makefile. Now pppd loads ppp.o, but this doesn't
>seem right ? Anyway there seems to be no info in the sources or the
>newsgroups, mailing list etc. It sure would be nice if some documentation
>of these sort of changes made it into the Documentation directory.
>
>-- Richard
this is what you miss:
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 108, 0 Aug 10 12:47 /dev/ppp
found it in devices.txt

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