On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:27:03AM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Running 2.6.7 on my server. Make sure that /sys/class/ppp/ppp gets > >> created (it has everything to do with sysfs and not udev actually). > >> > > I run Linux debian 2.6.4-1-386 #1 Sat Mar 13 17:49:12 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux > > debian bin. kernel and udev > > ii udev 0.030-1 /dev/ management daemon > > package. > > I did 'find /sys |grep ppp' and it got: > > /sys/cdev/major/ppp > > Is this what I should alias to /dev/ppp ? > > No, it should be /sys/class/ppp/ppp. In the last ppp directory, there > should be a dev file. This dev file tells you what the major and minor > number is. Interesting enough, I don't see any /sys/cdev directory in > my /sys filesystem. > > Do you have ppp_generic module loaded? Hi John, lsmod says yes! > > Also, try upgraded your kernel. I'm not sure which version of 2.6 got > the ppp device in /sys. I know the earlier version of 2.6 didn't have > it. > I read in bugs.debian.org about upgrading the kernel but I dont recall it saying which one has it. I have 'Linux debian 2.6.4-1-386 #1 Sat Mar 13 17:49:12 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux' from a debian kernel.
I will consider upgrading the kernel but it may take a while on dialup!
-Kev
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