Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-32,: Re: How does one use the new ppp modules (2.3.13) ? (and other problems)

# Re: How does one use the new ppp modules (2.3.13) ? (and other problems)

really mason@soo.com (mason@soo.com")
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 05:23:11 -0400 (EDT)

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> I have installed pppd-2.3.9 ( the very latest I could find ). It just
> informs me that my kernel has no ppp. So I added "alias ppp ppp_generic"
> to /etc/conf.modules, this did not help.

Hi;

You also need to configure in the kernel config, in Network
Device Support, after you select for PPP, the PPP support
for async serial ports, and the appropriate compression
methods if you want. The new PPP code separates those out
as separate options that can be compiled as separate modules.

If you're configuring these as modules, you'll want to add in
/etc/conf.modules aliases for them:

alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic

On top of that, in addition to compiling the new pppd-pre-2.3.9,
to go with the new kernel PPP code, don't forget to add a new
device into /dev

mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0

> Anyway there seems to be no info in the sources or the
> newsgroups, mailing list etc. It sure would be nice if some documentation
> of these sort of changes made it into the Documentation directory.

i agree. i don't know how to do async multilink with this new
code, if it's possible at this point, now that i can't get
the EQL device to work with the PPP connections.

ben
<mason@soo.com>

> -- Richard

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