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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Inapropriate ioctl for device?!? Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:09:51 +0200 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <411lcv$dsv@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <40ualh$s2@noc.tor.hookup.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thomas Schroecker <thomas@canadian-agra.com> wrote: First of all: which o/s version? >I've been trying to get pppd to work over a dialin line (I followed the >steps in the handbook). However, everytime I log in, and start pppd, a >message something like "inapropriate ioctl for device" pops up on the which ioctl is inappropriate? >server console. But ppp still sorta works. I can ping the server, but >that's about it. Telneting or ftping to the server is outta the >question. Sometimes I get this cool kernel panic and the system crashes. which panic? >btw, running over ttyd00 That device does not exist :), but i guess you're using ttyd0. -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)