According to Paul Livingstone: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi all,
>
> Im currently trying to connect my newly born Linux box to the net and was
> disappointed to find that the version of Slackware that I had installed
> 2.0.34, does not contain PPP support. Once I had got over my
> dissapointment, I thought all I needed to do was to download the module
> ppp.o a mere 25K, and insmod the module.
Support is there, slackware will install modules and the needed ppp tools if
told to. The modules themselfs are found on slackware/a6/modules.tgz
the ppp tools are in ./n3/ppp.tgz you can use pkgtool to install them onto
your system.
> After much head scratching and wondering why I wasn't able to insmod the
> module, I stumbled across a document which said that before I could even
> attempt to load the ppp module, I would need to get a hold of the ppp
> daemon code and compile it into a new kernel. Nightmare!! As I was trying
> to avoid recompiling kernels at this tender stage in my Linux education.
No need, the kernel which is installed from the distribution source will do
just fine.
> Anyway I decided that there was nothing else for it and what the hell, even
> if I totally screwed up, I could still get back to where I was before I
> tried the new kernel business.
> OK I then downloaded the linux source code from the web to go in my
> /usr/src directory and extracted it into the usr/src/linux directory.
> Following the pppd readme , I stepped through the sequence until it was
> time to build a new kernel. I did a make config , chose the appropriate
> choices,(basically I chose everything networkey and left the rest to its
> default setting more or less). Then I did a make dep and a make clean. Now
> its time to make zimage. I now get the message
> *** no rule to make target zimage. Stop
Huum. Linux is case sensative, its make "zImage" not "zimage".
>
> OK so I spend a few more days reading and searching through usenet posts
> and try the following
>
> Make zdisk (runs for a while , even without a floppy in the drive and
> fails due to some pppd type errors)
> Make as above
> Make vmlinuz as for zimage
>
> Right now I think my next test will be to just try and recompile a kernel
> without ppp support and see if I can do that or alternatively switch to a
> kernel with ppp support built in. Any advice will be gratefully received.
Switch back to the origanal kernel from the distribution source which you
have, if thats a cdrom then all you need is on the cdrom.
>
> TIA
> Paul.
>
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Regards Richard.
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