Hi, Today I've installed kernel-image-2.6.0 from backports.org on my woody pc. Until now I've always used self-compiled kernels, but decided to change to the kernel-images now. Those have devpts compiled in,while I had that never in my own kernels. Not sure why, but in any case, I never had problems. To use devtps, I added it to /etc/fstab:
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 Reboot worked ok, save for a couple of (hopefully) unrelated warnings. The output of mount looks correct to me: devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) But, using kernel-image-2.6.0, I lost my internet connection over pppoe. Investigation showed that with my 2.4 kernel without devpts, pppd would establish a connection over /dev/ttyp0: Dec 31 17:38:24 sonic pppd[275]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 31 17:38:24 sonic pppd[275]: Serial connection established. Dec 31 17:38:24 sonic pppd[275]: using channel 1 Dec 31 17:38:24 sonic pppd[275]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 31 17:38:24 sonic pppd[275]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp0 Dec 31 17:38:25 sonic pppd[275]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xf96c480e>] Dec 31 17:38:25 sonic pppd[275]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xf96c480e>] [...] Using the kernel-image, pppd tries to use /dev/pts/<num>, which fails, and leads to a timeout: Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Serial connection established. Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0 Dec 31 18:07:05 sonic pppd[447]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Dec 31 18:07:05 sonic pppd[447]: Connection terminated. All amounts of googling and trying stuff lead to nothing. Unfortunately, after booting 2.6, I lost my mouse with the 2.4 kernel, so now I have to choose between no internet with 2.6 and no mouse with 2.4. Hopefully somebody knows how to fix one of those, preferably the devpts issue :) Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
