Hasnain Rangwalla wrote:
>
> Hello all:
>
> I'm a linux newbie. In fact, I've never manged to get ppp running yet.
> I've got the RedHat 5.1 Manhattan distribution. After installing the
> OS, which was successful, I setup all the pppd files as described in the
> ppp HOWTO but I can't even start the daemon. It puts put a message
> stating that my kernel lacks support for ppp. I checked whether it was
> loaded as a module with 'lsmod' but the list was empty. I tried loading
> it with 'insmod -v ppp' and I got a number of unresolved symbol messages
> most of which had a prefix of "slhc_free_". Do I have to recompile the
> kernel? If so, should I compile ppp support as a module or make it part
> of the kernel?
>
Before doing insmod ppp, do insmod slhc. The ppp.o module depends on the
slhc.o module.
By the way, rebuilding the kernel sounds frightful, but is really not
that hard if you just follow the instructions. My system (5.0) has
insmod and ppp as modules like yours, but it manages to load them
automatically when needed. I haven't learned yet how that works.
-- David
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