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Re: ppp.o module problem with boot disks



Ray Schultz <linuxfan@wt.net> writes:

> Well they booted fine and installed the base system.  But when I went
> to configure my ppp connection I got a message that said that
> my kernel did not support PPP because the module wasn't loaded or
> the kernel wasn't configured for PPP.
> 
> I went to load the ppp.o module with insmod and got a message that
> said the module was compiled for 2.0.36 but that the current kernel
> was 2.2.6.
> 
> I downloaded Slink first and then tried Potatoe.  It did the same
> thing.

AFAIK, the official boot-floppies (which are slink only) do not use
kernel 2.2.6 for any architecture.

Which architecture are you on?  Can you give us the exact URL of the
dir from which you downloaded the rescue disk, etc?  Did you replace
the kernel.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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