Re: kernel troubles revisited (ppp)

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:00:59 -0400 (EDT) Richard Horvitz
<rhorvitz ececs uc edu> spit forth:

> Hi,
>   I wote earlier about how I upgraded from 6.1 to 7.1 and the ppp daemon
> would not start, nor could Linux recognize the windows/dos file system,
> both producing error messages about how the kernel did not support the
> task.  I tried doing a complete install instead of an upgrade, as was
> suggested (I did a custom install, included everything, did not format
> the
> / partition as I could no longer back things up, the upgrade made it
> impossible to write to my cd writer)).
>   This partially fixed things.  Now linux can recognize the dos file
> system, but it still cannot start the ppp daemon (during booting it
> pauses
> a long time when trying to start ppp0, then produces a message saying
> error number 6).  In addition (as after the upgrade) when I go to
> /usr/src/linux and do make config it fails, as there is no Makefile
> there.
>   Does anyone have any suggestions?

As for the make config, you likely have the kernel-headers installed,
which are required, but not the kernel-source. The headers will create the
directory and put stuff in it. But only the source will put the Makefile
there.

I wish I could help on ppp with the 2.4 kernels. But, I changed to cable
just a little over a month before 7.1 was released and I haven't had to
set it up since then. I can only offer some help without benefit of
firsthand knowledge (which can many times be no help at all).

Here are, in no particular order, questions/thoughts/suggestions.

What have you tried since the fresh install? Do you know that the modem is
getting recognized? Have you tried using /dev/ttyS<whatever> instead of
/dev/modem? Have you tried with kppp, wvdial or the redhat dialer (sorry
forget the name)? In the past I've had one or the other fail only to find
another works fine. Have you run through minicom and started pppd
manually?  Have you tried removing the modem, booting, and replacing the
modem with kudzu running throughout? What do your logs show, particularly
dmesg and and boot.log?

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