Re: kernel 2.4.1

[A Brady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Monday 05 February 2001 00:09, Richard opined:
> After using linux for over a year and a half I am ashamed to admit what
> a newbie I still seem to be:  dowloaded, installed, built, 2.4.0, then
> 2.4.1, just to show myself how good I was getting.  In neither can I get
> pppd to function.  Can find and open modem, dial out to ISP, but get
> immediate failure at PAP and disconnect.  Error msgs indicate error with
> ioctl,PPPIOC...I don't recall the rest.  Who are these ioctl's, where
> are they and what can I do about them?  I assume the new kernel had some
> affect though I cannot figure out where.  Man page for pppd only
> identifies error=1 as fatal probably due to some inconsistency.  Thanks
> for any guidance.

I haven't upgraded to 2.4 yet. But, when going from 2.0 -> 2.2 an upgrade 
was also required for several other packages. One of them was pppd. My 
guess would be that you missed that upgrade or one that might be related to 
the whole kernel upgrade method.

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