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Re: diald question



Philippe Troin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:30:33 +0800 Lu Jimmy Chenji
> (kintaro@silver.hkabc.net) wrote:
> 
> > BTW, I installed Debian-1.2 base system and want to use FTP method
> > to download more files.  So I need to use diald.  Diald doc
> > tells me that in order to use diald, I must have SLIP devices in my
> > kernel.  How can I check if my kernel has SLIP devices?  Secondly.
> > is there any simple way to setup diald?  Can anybody guied me?
> 
> You don't have to run diald to use the ftp method. Only pppd.
> Actually, though that diald is not that hard to configure.
> You can insmod (or modprobe) slip.o, it should do the trick. To check
> if it's in the kernel, try a lsmod.
> 
> Phil.
> 
> --

	In order to know what devices are compiled inside the kernel, try:  
cat /proc/devices

	FYI, you can try "cat" on other files in /proc as well.  What they
contain are obvious by their file names.

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