Hi,
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 23:10 -0800, Don Werts wrote:
> I'm running SuSE 5.3 with an ext. modem on cua1. Using Kppp I am able to
> dial out and make connection to my ISP. When we go to start ppp, I get a
> message "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly". I have removed the LOCK
> statement from the file /etc/ppp/options, I removed the /var/lock/LCK from
> the Kppp config. I had turned OFF Start_Kerneld from the rc.conf file.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why this?
> The change to the rc.conf file made no change, yes, I ran /sbin/SuSEconfig
> before re-trying Kppp.
> I am wondering if the kernel, vs. 2.0.35, has to have PPP compiled into it
> or will it, PPP, work as a loadable module? I have checked the loaded
It will work both ways.
> modules using lsmod and don't see the ppp.o module loaded.
> How do I determine if the kernel has PPP compiled into it?
Goto /usr/src/linux and do a `make menuconfig'. If ppp support
is compiled into the kernel it will be marked with a <*>. If it
has been compiled as a module it will look like `<M> PPP...'.
> Is there something else which I may be overlooking here. I'm getting
> blurry-eyed looking through all the doc's., thank god for all the doc's.!
> AH yes, one more piece of info., the modules nkita and nkitb series a were
> selected and loaded.
> Sure would appreciate ANY suggestions/help. So close and yet so far
> away....So many questions, so little time :)
Watch out for error messages in /var/log/messages while you try
to connect (do a `tail -f /var/log/messages' before connecting)
and tell us what you've seen.
Ciao,
Stefan
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