Re: (Solved): Re: recompiling kernel and ppp
Kevin,
A similar problem occurs if mgetty is running on ttyS1 and I try to dial out
for ppp using cua1 - the messages is "Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel
support". Changing the ppp dial out to ttyS1 works fine.
This looks like the reporting problem is either with the kernel or with pppd.
Is your setup with xringd similar -ie a combination of ttyS1 and cua1?
Sorry I didn't get a chance to send this to you earlier.
Thomas
> I'm replying to my own message since I got several responses and my problem
> is now solved. Unfortunately, the problem (& solution) turned out to be
> completely different.
>
> When I first came up with 2.0.0, I tested the modem with minicom before
> attempting PPP. No problem. After compiling the new kernel, I didn't test
> minicom. I compiled the kernel a dozen times, sometimes using modules,
> sometimes not, etc. I kept getting "kernel doesn't support ppp". Well,
> while using 2.0.20, I decided to back up a step or 3 and try minicom.
> "Device /dev/cua1 is busy". Ah ha! After some playing and investigating,
> it turns out that xringd (which I need for something else but I'm currently
> not using) is grabbing the modem and not sharing nicely. If I stop xringd,
> PPP works great first time, every time, my chat scripts, etc, everything
> was OK. I use xringd and "kernel doesn't support ppp" (probably not the
> most intuitive error message ;-). Once things calm down a bit I'll e-mail
> the author of xringd and see if this is a known problem. It might just be
> kernel specific, or I need to recompile it and didn't know. I don't need
> it for a while so I'm not sweating it yet.
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Thomas R Behrndt behrndt@enternet.com.au
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