Re: Installing a kernel off CD-ROM
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:40, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
(snip for bandwidth)
> >> On my system, these drivers are loaded automatically. There is a file
> >> /etc/modutils/ppp with the following lines:
> >>
> >> alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
> >> alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
> >> alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
> >> alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> >> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> >> alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> >> alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> >>
> >> Please check your /etc/modutils/ppp file and your /etc/modules.conf
> >> to make sure it also has these lines (if not, try to run
> >> update-modules).
> >
> > Yes:
> >
> > [modules.conf is ok]
> >
> > What does this mean? I downloaded the kernel as a .deb from
> > debian.org. I installed it (IIRC) with Kpackage or with dpkg.
> > I can't recall whether it asked me any questions about what to include
> > when I installed it, or not.
> >
> > As a check, I just uninstalled my older 2.4.16-k6 kernel (which I
> > don't normally use any more) and reinstalled it with
> > dpkg -i /<path>/kernel-image-2.4.16-k6_2.4.16-1_i386.deb
> > the only questions it asked me were whether I wanted to use Lilo
> > (no). It gives exactly the same results for the ppp modules as the
> > 2.4.18 kernel (above).
>
> The module configuration file is part of the ppp package, not the kernel
> image packages.
OK, so /etc/modules.conf is independent of which kernel I install or run, I
take it.
> > Kppp dials my ISP and makes connection as it should - just that it
> > isn't communicating with Kmail or browsers.
>
> What does the ppp output or log say? Does pinging ip addresses work (try
> ping 192.25.206.10 for www.debian.org)?
Hmm, I may have found it.
With the bf2.4 kernel (the one that ppp works OK with), /var/log/messages is
as follows:
Oct 10 22:06:59 alti kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
Oct 10 22:06:59 alti pppd[404]: pppd 2.4.1 started by cr, uid 1000
Oct 10 22:06:59 alti pppd[404]: Using interface ppp0
Oct 10 22:06:59 alti pppd[404]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Oct 10 22:07:15 alti kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Oct 10 22:07:15 alti kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Oct 10 22:07:15 alti pppd[404]: local IP address 219.88.129.175
Oct 10 22:07:15 alti pppd[404]: remote IP address 210.55.12.201
Oct 10 22:07:15 alti pppd[404]: primary DNS address 210.55.12.205
Oct 10 22:07:15 alti pppd[404]: secondary DNS address 210.55.12.1
Oct 10 22:07:54 alti pppd[404]: Terminating on signal 15.
Oct 10 22:07:54 alti pppd[404]: Connection terminated.
Oct 10 22:07:54 alti pppd[404]: Connect time 1.0 minutes.
Oct 10 22:07:54 alti pppd[404]: Sent 5303 bytes, received 42981 bytes.
Oct 10 22:07:55 alti pppd[404]: Exit.
With the K6 kernel, /var/log/messages shows a lot of this:
Oct 10 21:26:31 alti diald[212]: Delaying 1 seconds before clear to dial.
Oct 10 21:26:34 alti diald[212]: Calling site 192.168.0.2
Oct 10 21:26:34 alti diald[212]: No devices free to call out on.
Oct 10 21:26:35 alti diald[212]: Connect script failed.
Oct 10 21:26:35 alti diald[212]: Delaying 1 seconds before clear to dial.
Oct 10 21:26:59 alti pppd[485]: pppd 2.4.1 started by cr, uid 1000
Oct 10 21:26:59 alti pppd[485]: Using interface ppp0
Oct 10 21:26:59 alti pppd[485]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti pppd[485]: local IP address 219.88.128.122
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti pppd[485]: remote IP address 210.55.12.201
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti pppd[485]: primary DNS address 210.55.12.205
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti pppd[485]: secondary DNS address 210.55.12.1
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti diald[212]: Trigger: udp 192.168.0.1/32778
210.55.12.205/53
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti diald[212]: Calling site 192.168.0.2
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti diald[212]: No devices free to call out on.
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti diald[212]: Connect script failed.
Oct 10 21:27:00 alti diald[212]: Delaying 1 seconds before clear to dial.
Oct 10 21:27:03 alti diald[212]: Calling site 192.168.0.2
Oct 10 21:27:03 alti diald[212]: No devices free to call out on.
Oct 10 21:27:04 alti diald[212]: Connect script failed.
Oct 10 21:27:04 alti diald[212]: Delaying 1 seconds before clear to dial.
Oct 10 21:27:06 alti diald[212]: Calling site 192.168.0.2
What's diald up to, should it be doing that, is that what's interfering
with ppp, and if so should I just kill diald? (Presumably a script
somewhere started it).
Regards
cr
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