On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:20, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the install > > CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? > > > > Currently, I have the 2.4.18-k6 kernel installed on my hard drive, > > but it doesn't seem to have ppp enabled (dmesg brings up no mention > > of ppp). I'm a little surprised, I would've thought a kernel I > > downloaded as a .deb off debian.org would have ppp enabled, but > > still... > > (did I do something wrong during the install, I wonder?) > > Check if the ppp support is built as modules. On my system (self > compiled kernel with ppp support as modules), the following modules are > loaded: > > sirius:/home/andreas# lsmod | grep ppp > ppp_deflate 3008 1 (autoclean) > zlib_inflate 18592 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] > zlib_deflate 17984 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] > ppp_async 6624 1 (autoclean) > ppp_generic 17164 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp > ppp_async] > slhc 4704 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
No, nothing for ppp (or PPP) > A quick search on <http://packages.debian.org> shows that your kernel > package has the ppp_async.o module (I didn't check for the other ones). > > Try this to find out: > > cat /boot/config-2.4.18-k6 | grep PPP Yes.... alti:/etc/modutils# cat /boot/config-2.4.18-1-k6 | grep PPP CONFIG_PPP=m CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK=y CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=m CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=m CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m CONFIG_PPPOE=m CONFIG_PPPOATM=m CONFIG_COMX_PROTO_PPP=m CONFIG_SYNCLINK_SYNCPPP=m CONFIG_HDLC_PPP=y CONFIG_WANPIPE_PPP=y CONFIG_WANPIPE_MULTPPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_BSDCOMP=m > On my system, these drivers are loaded automatically. There is a file > /etc/modutils/ppp with the following lines: > > alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic > alias char-major-108 ppp_generic > alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async > alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty > alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp > alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate > alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate > > Please check your /etc/modutils/ppp file and your /etc/modules.conf to > make sure it also has these lines (if not, try to run update-modules). Yes: alti:/etc/modutils# less ppp alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate and /etc/modules.conf is the same: ... ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/ppp alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate What does this mean? I downloaded the kernel as a .deb from debian.org. I installed it (IIRC) with Kpackage or with dpkg. I can't recall whether it asked me any questions about what to include when I installed it, or not. As a check, I just uninstalled my older 2.4.16-k6 kernel (which I don't normally use any more) and reinstalled it with dpkg -i /<path>/kernel-image-2.4.16-k6_2.4.16-1_i386.deb the only questions it asked me were whether I wanted to use Lilo (no). It gives exactly the same results for the ppp modules as the 2.4.18 kernel (above). Kppp dials my ISP and makes connection as it should - just that it isn't communicating with Kmail or browsers. When I boot off the bf2.4 kernel on the floppy, I got no response to lsmod | grep ppp before I tried dialling my ISP, but kppp dialled OK and communicated with Kmail successfully and now I get : alti:/home/cr# lsmod | grep ppp ppp_deflate 38944 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 6464 0 (autoclean) ppp_generic 18728 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 4432 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] So, I'm a bit puzzled. > > If I want to reach the Internet I currently have to boot the > > 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel off the world's slowest floppy boot disk ;) > > > > [...] > > > > Anyway, back to the CD-ROM, is there any way to use the kernel images > > on that to just put a vmlinuz-xxx in /boot that I can call > > with Grub, without going through the Install process again (because > > last time I did that, I broke things :( > > > > Or do I need to do another 5MB download of a .deb from debian.org? > > First, you can use apt-get to install the package for the 2.4bf version. > It is located on the fifth CD. Second, I wouldn't use it because the > kernel images from the Woody r0 and r1 CDs have several security > issues, so I would use an updated version from security.debian.org. > Please note that the bf24 package still has the same name, the other > updated 2.4 packages however have slightly different names. So if you > want to update your current kernel package, you have to install > kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen In fact, I am using the 2.4.18-1-k6 kernel (I was a bit sloppy quoting it before, sorry). I also have the 2.4.16-k6 kernel installed, it gives the same results so far as ppp is concerned. I only have disks 1 and 2 of Woody, since all the packages I want are on those two disks (except, IIRC, Kppp which I downloaded off debian.org). It seems kernel images are on disk 1, packages on disk 5. But anyway, it looks as if the k6 kernel I've got *should* do ppp OK, if set up right. Regards cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
