home come your modem is connected to ttyS0 i mean it's COM1 under dos and
only mouse uses that serial port.If I am wrong please point out.
Khalid Naveed Khan
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From: Neil Hollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:05 PM
Subject: uh oh no ppp support am I booting with the right kernel?
> I set up my internet connection using my favourite connection tool
> eznet. But the modem won't dial out. After setting dev/modem to
> /dev/ttys0 I narrowed down the error to something like "pppd error
> either no kernel support for ppp or module not loaded" I cannot believe
> the out of the box kernel does not have ppp support unless I am using
> the wrong kernel image to boot from (using loadlin-I copied from /boot a
> file called vmlinuz and there were other alternatives). How do load the
> missing module and what is it called or should I try booting via loadlin
> from one of the alternatives in /boot such as vmlinz-2.2.5BOOT? I
> had a
> poke around linuxconf but selecting one or two ppp things didn't
> seem to
> help. Ta. NH
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