Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:48:33 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 20:07, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> Using the kernel-image, pppd tries to use /dev/pts/<num>, which fails,
>> and leads to a timeout:
>>
>> Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
>> Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Serial connection established.
>> Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Using interface ppp0
>> Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
>> Dec 31 18:07:05 sonic pppd[447]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>> Dec 31 18:07:05 sonic pppd[447]: Connection terminated.
>
> Replying to myself, sigh.
> After compiling 2.6.0 w/o devpts, I found out that ppp still times out,
> although it tries to connect vi /dev/ttyp0, as it did with my old
> kernel. Now I'm completely lost.
If you google on the error message, a lot of potentially useful links
appear. Might be worth doing some research that way.
For instance:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/debian-user-199908/msg00721.html
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....................paul
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