Re: PPP where for out thou?

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Andy Bottman wrote:
> 
>         I rebuilt my kernel and have lost support for PPP, when I use 'pon'
> it says the kernel lacks support.
>         I keep rebuilding and using 'make menuconfig'  and I choose PPP
> support under networking.  I can't find any other reference to PPP.
>         What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks
>   ANDY
> 
> ==========================
>   ANDY BOTTMAN
>     Andy@AntiFact.com
> ==========================
> 

Someone else mentioned in a similar thread a earlier this week that this
message doesn't necessarily mean that the kernel does not support ppp;
that it could be simply to a misconfiguration, etc of your dial-up
settings. But then again, since it (apparently) was working before the
recompile, you're probably right to think it's a problem in the kernel
settings. You might try using insmod as Dennis said earlier today on the
previous post, per below:

> Your kernel does not currently support PPP.  As root, execute:
>      insmod ppp
> 
> If you do not receive any errors, try to connect.  If you receive
> errors, you may need to compile a kernel/modules for ppp.  (Unless you
> have changed your kernel from the default installed, the ppp module
> should arlready exist)
> 
> If this works you can use 'modconf' to have ppp automatically
> included. 'insmod ppp' is good for testing, but won't survive a
> reboot.
> 
> Dennis
> -- 
> Dennis Kelly <dpk@egr.msu.edu>
> Network Adminstrator
> College of Engineering, MSU
>