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Re: ppp not working



W. Paul Mills quotes:
> sambo@goldensun.com (Samuel Varghese) writes:

>> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John Hasler wrote:

>> the exact message that appears when i type either pon or pppd is:
>> /usr/sbin/pppd: this system lacks kernel support for pppd. this could be
>> because the ppp kernel module is not loaded or because the kernel is not
>> configured for ppp. see the readme.linux file in the pppd2.3.5 distribution.

I did not write that.

And writes:
> Sounds like your ppp module is not loading.

Unfortunately, that may not be the case. pppd often gets confused by other
errors and erroneously issues that message.  It is often the result of a
permissions problem.
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