Re: where is my kernel source?

To: Marlon Urias <nolram@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: where is my kernel source?
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 06 Apr 1999 10:38:51 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 873e2dkbck.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: Marlon Urias's message of "Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:52:07 -0700 (PDT)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.96.990405204640.24007A-100000@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>

Marlon Urias writes:
> After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I
> tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp.

Don't believe it.  The distributed kernel does support ppp.  This is a bug
in pppd: it often jumps to the conclusion that the kernel does not support
ppp when something else entirely is wrong.  Did you run pon as root, or as
a user?  What serial port did you select in pppconfig?
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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