On 12 Feb, Ted Behling wrote: > I'm trying to run diald to automate my PPP connection. I don't recall the > exact sequence of events when I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.1, but > it now generates the following lines in /var/log/messages: > > Feb 8 15:36:22 salsa kernel: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) > Feb 8 15:36:23 salsa diald[612]: Diald is dying with code 1 > > Diald then terminates. I'm using the package that came with Debian 2.0, > and according to the diald man page, I'm running version 0.16 (1997-01-28). > I've checked the diald Web page, but it didn't cite this problem. Is > there a fix? > > (Crossposted to linux-diald and debian-user)
Without more info, I can't really say what is happening, but I will take a guess. Do you have the following line in /etc/conf.modules: alias net-pf-17 af_packet Do you have the af_packet.o kernel module? It may be that af_packet was compiled as a module (or not compiled at all) and is not loaded. I can definitely say that the message about the obsolete interface is not harmful and can be ignored. That is not the cause of the problem. -- ---------------------- Todd J Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]