Re: switching to kernel 2.6 - diald error: "No pty found ..."

["Daniel B." <REMOVEdanielTHIS@fgm.com>]

I wrote:

> John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Daniel writes:
> >
> > > Is Sarge's diald supposed to work with kernel 2.6.8 and udev?
> >
> >
> >
> > Do you really need diald at all?  What does it do for you that dial on
> > demand can't?
>
>
> I don't know; maybe nothing.
>
>
> However, I'd like to avoid changing too many things at once.  (At the
> moment I'm trying to try a 2.6 kernel to see if it finally avoids severe
> filesystem corruption when I try to enable DMA on my AMD IDE controller.)
>
> So, does anyone know if there a solution to the "No pty in range
> pty[p-s][0-9a0-f]" problem?

Okay, never mind the pty question; I did drop diald and use pppd's
demand-dialing option.

Daniel