On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:28:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/modem->/dev/ttys1. > Now when logged in as root I issue pon I still get the message this kernel > does not have PPP support. In compiling the kernel I built the PPP support > in, IE: it is NOT a module. The kernel source came from 2.0.33-7.deb > (which added some tcp/ip fixes for teardrop attack and also the FAT32 > patches, I got this from the hamm area on the FTP server, but built it > under 1.3.1 r6) It was mentioned that pppd has to be setuid root. How to > do this? Setuid is a system call not a command?
/dev/ttys1 is NOT a serial port, it is a virtual terminal. When you ask ppp to run on a virtual terminal, it tells you the kernel does not have PPP support, which isn't helpful at all but that's the way it is. You want /dev/ttyS1, which IS a serial port. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
