Messages in this thread | | | Subject | I can't get ppp to work on 2.1.XX kernels (Debian) | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:38:25 +1000 | From | Alan Eugene Davis <> |
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I hope you'll forgive me for wasting this bandwidth and the time of developers who have made computing not only possible, but a joy. I've had trouble with ppp with 2.1.XX kernels ever since early on in 2.1.X. I have just compiled linux-2.1.96. As usual the compile went well. I bailed out of the make-kpkg of debian, and just compiled as usual (another issue---this has been a major headache w/ debian, but it's mostly unrelated). It booted, as usual.
As usual, ppp wouldn't work. I've been through this many times. From early on in 2.1.XX until now, only one kernel has worked for me---2.1.66 patched with some tty patch. Different times, I get different messages, quite distinct problems. The last few kernels I have gotten this message:
maan:~# ppp /dev/ttyS3: Device or resource busy maan:~# /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. 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 ppp-2.3.3 distribution.
PPP is running as a module, and is installed in the kernel. When I rmmod this module, then run ppp, the kernel daemon installs the module again, marking it as "unused".
I'm running ppp 2.3.3, installed as a deb package, 2.3.3-5. Should I download source for ppp and go through the make kernel procedure. I have done this previously, and it didn't help.
I've previously received messages from a number of members of this list. I get messages indicating it's a known bug, to upgrade ppp, which I have done, but I haven't been able to get past this. I'm considering hardware, but even on my previous machine I had similar problems. All the utilities mentioned in Documentation/Changes are up to date except procinfo, which I cannot find on the Debian (hamm) site.
Alan
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