Re: PPP kernel support?
Quoting steve doerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How do you put PPP support into the 2.2.0 kernel? I get the following > message when I try to run pon: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be > because > the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is > not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the > ppp-2.3.5 distribution. Unfortunately this error message is emitted under various other circumstances, e.g. ppp version too old, wrong permissions. > I selected networking support, TCP/IP, etc. when I built it. > > a dmesg | grep "PPP" returns: > > debian:~# dmesg | grep "PPP" > PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) > PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. > PPP line discipline registered. > > The above readme doesn't make sense because it sounds inconsistent with > the Debian kernel building instructions. The kernel works well except I > can't dial out. The PPP-HOWTO mentions this problem (under Debugging). There will also be such questions answered in the Mail Archives but I can't recall how long ago. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: PPP kernel support?
> How do you put PPP support into the 2.2.0 kernel? I get the following > message when I try to run pon: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be > because > the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is > not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the > ppp-2.3.5 distribution. yeah, u need to compile it into the kernel or as a module. it's in the section for networking devices somewhere amongst all the ethernet cards from da Bobstopper
PPP kernel support?
How do you put PPP support into the 2.2.0 kernel? I get the following message when I try to run pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.5 distribution. I selected networking support, TCP/IP, etc. when I built it. a dmesg | grep "PPP" returns: debian:~# dmesg | grep "PPP" PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. The above readme doesn't make sense because it sounds inconsistent with the Debian kernel building instructions. The kernel works well except I can't dial out. Thanks for any input, Steve
RE: PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" drivers
> -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 1998 10:15AM > To: Hogland, Thomas E. > Subject: Re: PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" > drivers > > > Ran smailconfig and I get an error that hostname --fqdn was > non-zero. > > Yes, but what *exactly* in *detail* did you answer to smailconfig's > questions? > Nothing - that message is the first line I get in both dselect and smailconfig. There's no questions... > > ...is there a way to set this 'manually'? > > Yes, of course. Just edit /etc/hostname. > > > ...set PC name as Linux > > What do you mean by "PC name?" > As in, during the network setup you provide a PC na I've gotten another response that putting in names like that can cause problems, and it can be much easier to just create your own domain and connect to the rest of the world. Going to try that... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" drivers
So, it's set as MY domain, not a domain I'm connecting to? Hmmm... Will this have side effects when I DO set up the ethernet connection? (I'm also wired to a LAN and through it - and the firewall - to the internet. Maybe I'll reset it to something like debian.ctg.com - the LAN domain is ctg.com - and try again... Hate these damn installs! ...) > -- > From: Martin > Bialasinski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 1998 9:38AM > To: Hogland, Thomas E. > Subject: Re: PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" > drivers > > "Hogland, Thomas E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ethernet anyplace, just PPP; set PC name as Linux, network/domain > name > > as servcom.com (my ISP) and all appropriate IP addresses... > ^ > > Don't do that. Chose a non-existent domain like "mynet.home" or such. > This > will save you from much trouble in the future. > > If you want, check the january 1998 mailinglist archive for a posting > I did > about this subject. > > Ciao, > Martin > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" drivers
> Did you run smailconfig? If so, what did you tell it? > Ran smailconfig and I get an error that hostname --fqdn was non-zero. Started digging, ran some man pages, etc. then ran hostname (comes back fine) and hostname -f (which says hostname: unknown or something like that). Also won't let me set it manually... I think that's the problem - is there a way to set this 'manually'? Dselect chokes on about 4 packages, all of which require mail-transport except smail, which has this FQDN error. I had reinstalled Debian from scratch, no sign of ethernet anyplace, just PPP; set PC name as Linux, network/domain name as servcom.com (my ISP) and all appropriate IP addresses... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" drivers
May or may not affect you. Check perms on /dev/ttyS?, needs to be group dialout, and on ppp scripits. PPP from debian assumes that you are in group dip or root. As I have seen it explained PPP actually is trying to load over console, and there is no PPP support for PPP over a console. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP kernel support loss and "other UNIX" drivers
Have had this happen on two different systems now and am at a loss as to why or how to fix. I install the base system and everything goes fine. Have a PPP script saved on disk to enable PPP for Dselect FTP. After I restart the PC and get the "press enter to start dselect" message I switch to tty2, load the ppp script stuff and "ppp-up" to dial and connect. (On tty3 I use "tail -f /var/log/messages" and wait for the IP address to be assigned from my ISP, then back to dselect.) Start dselect, select method, select generic install (no adds or deletes at all to start), download... All goes fine. Usually is overnight, so by morning the PPP link has timed out and hung up (per tty3 messages). Unpack, install, configure - get an error on smail, mailx, cron and at that it can't resolve my host and mail names. Try to bring up PPP in tty2 again and get the message that the kernel lacks PPP support. Can restart the PC to no effect, can reinstall PPP scripts to no effect, can switch directories amongst the /etc family to no effect. Kernel is 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 (two different systems, total of 4 or 5 installs). The PC's are both Compaqs - a Prolinea MT 4/33 (AMD 486/133, 24MB RAM, two 500MB IDE) and a Presario 4840 (PII/266, 6GB IDE, 32MB RAM). The Prolinea has been formatted and reinstalled 4x, the Presario is a fresh install on a single clean partition (didn't even fdisk it in DOS before the install!). WHY, HOW, and (now that the shouting is over and I feel better) how do we fix this? Also, can I use drivers for UNIX SVR3.2, SCO UNIX and/or SCO XENIX under Debian? (Have a dialup board that comes with those. Company's response to "Do you have Linux drivers?" is "Nope, but if you buy ___ board for lotsa $$$ we have them"...) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: : Greg Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support. : : Hi Greg! : : Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1. : ^ ^ : Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is : mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message: : : Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support : : This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd : would give such a deceptive error message? Sure. It's not deceptive, it's just not very clear :) When you try to use the PPP line discipline on /dev/ttys1, which is a console, it does not work. Why? Because the kernel does not understand how to make a console use PPP (there is no kernel support for PPP _on_that_device_). The kernel _does_ know about PPP on serial ports [1], and /dev/ttyS1 refers to a serial port ... [1] Assuming, of course, that you've got a kernel with PPP support, or have loaded the PPP module, etc. : Kirk Hilliard : (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
On 4 Jan, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd > would give such a deceptive error message? > > Kirk Hilliard > (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down) I got this message when I first compiled PPP as a kernel module. Since ppp.o depends on slhc.o and bsdcomp.o, if module dependencies aren't set up correctly, modprobe will refuse to load it. The best way to find out is simply to do "modprobe ppp" as root... if it fails, then try editing /etc/conf.modules and uncommenting this line: #depfile=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep It says not to do this... but it made my modules work and I've never had any problems since. Cheers Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
> Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is > mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message: > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support > This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd would > give such a deceptive error message? >From a quick galnce at the source, it looks like they test for ppp support by trying to put the tty into the ppp discipline. When this fails, they assume it is due to lack of ppp support. The tty does not seem to be validated in any way. I'd call it a bug. Users find it very confusing. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
Greg Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support. Hi Greg! Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1. ^ ^ Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message: Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support This sounds like a bug to me. Does anyone here understand why pppd would give such a deceptive error message? Kirk Hilliard (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No PPP kernel support....
On my box this was a permission problem. Check the perms on all pon related files and on the /dev/tty???. Kevin Traas wrote: > > I've got a friend that I'm trying to support over the phone He's > getting the above error when trying to run "pon". I've gone through all the > obvious things, but have had no success. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > - Running lsmod showed ppp loaded. > - Rebuilding kernel with static ppp support didn't help. > - ppp version is 2.2.0f-23 > - Debian version 1.3.1 (from LSL) > > (I'm searching the Debian archives now, but haven't found anything yet) > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No PPP kernel support....
I have had this message with a broken com port. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > I've got a friend that I'm trying to support over the phone He's > getting the above error when trying to run "pon". I've gone through all the > obvious things, but have had no success. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > - Running lsmod showed ppp loaded. > - Rebuilding kernel with static ppp support didn't help. > - ppp version is 2.2.0f-23 > - Debian version 1.3.1 (from LSL) > > (I'm searching the Debian archives now, but haven't found anything yet) > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
No PPP kernel support....
I've got a friend that I'm trying to support over the phone He's getting the above error when trying to run "pon". I've gone through all the obvious things, but have had no success. Does anyone have any ideas? - Running lsmod showed ppp loaded. - Rebuilding kernel with static ppp support didn't help. - ppp version is 2.2.0f-23 - Debian version 1.3.1 (from LSL) (I'm searching the Debian archives now, but haven't found anything yet) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ppp kernel support
From: Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Organization?? We don' need no steenkin' ... X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ppp kernel support Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've rebuilt my kernel from my Debian 1.1.8 CD of 21-Sep-96 several times but haven't been able to get ppp support in the kernel (i.e. my ppp-on script shows "Sorry, this kernel doesn't support ppp" or words to that effect). I enable Loadable modules and kerneld, say Y to Networking, a.out and ELF support and ELF kernel in General setup, TCP/IP and drop routed in Networking section; in Network devices section, I specify Y to network device support and PPP and M to Dummy, EQL, PLIP, and SLIP. I believe that those are the relevant configuration parameters; what am I missing? TIA for any help you can give me. Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
