Michael Callahan said: > I just grabbed the latest disks from ftp.debian.org (in > /pub/debian/unstable/disks-i386/current, the 1440 series), and > proceded to do the installation. It mostly works, but I'm > having trouble with PPP. I recompiled the kernel (using 1.3.100-1 now) > with PPP support, but when I try to run pppd, it says the kernel > does not support PPP. I believe it has something to do with > the lack of ppp devices in the /dev directory. Has anyone > else had trouble with this latest build?
I had this same problem. I finally tracked it to a problem with the ttyS* drivers in the kernel. However, I don't know exactly where in the drivers the problem is. For now, I run 'pppd' without the 'connect' option once after a reboot. It will fail, of course, but it puts the ttyS* device into the correct state, and 'pppd' works fine after that. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." - Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
