Tom George wrote:
Hall Stevenson wrote:
I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd
sent a string that caused the connection to fail. I
reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on with no difficulty in order
to send this message. Any ideas?
You need a specific, updated version of pppd to work with kernels 2.4.x.
All the updated/required packages are detailed in the "changes" (or is
it "Changes") file included with the kernel.
Regards
Hall
Before compiling the 2.4.1 kernel I used apt-get dist-upgrade to
install all the available upgrades in the stable distribution,. I
then checked against the list in changes and found that I still had
only modutils 2.3.11-13.1. I used apt-get install modutils to get
version 2.4.1-2. Still dpkg -l shows that I still have only ppp
2.3.11-1.4. I will try getting ppp 2.4.0 from the unstable distribution.
I am a little nervous about this - I really want to use some of the
features of 2.4 but why should I have to obtain packages from the
unstable distribution for a stable kernel distribution?
Well I got ppp 2.4.0f-1. I had to ./MAKEDEV ttyS4, then setserial uart
16550A port 0xd800 irq 3 When I executed pon and then plog I got a
message that the device was locked pid 181.
For the record I configured the 2.4.1 kernel for standard uart support,
for extended dumb serial support and for more than 4 serial ports. I am
only using ttyS0 and ttyS4 - the latter because that is where my Zoom
pci modem decided it belonged.
