I had a similar problem when I upgraded to a 2.4 kernel. The new pppd uses /dev/ppp , and the old one didn't - /dev/ppp didn't exist on my system, however, and I had similar symptoms to yours. They went away when I created /dev/ppp (`mknod -m 644 /dev/ppp c 108 0`).
Hope this helps, Levi On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:16:37 +1100 Lewis Shobbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an updated woody testing setup on an ol toshi laptop. I'm setting it > up as a mail server, firewall, squid proxy. In order to get iptables > happening I upgraded to 2.4.12 installed the source and headers with apt-get > before compiling. Since the PPPD dies immediately after passing the password > 7 switching to PPP. The log reveals problems locations char-major-5, which > I guess to be associated with the old pcmcia/serial modem setup. I tried > re-installing pppd, which as expected didn't fix the problem. Anyone got > any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Lewis >
