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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: tw.bbs.comp.386bsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot execute pppd ...help ! Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:45:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4e3ruq$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ylvAxkoYz4RY084yn@hntp2.hinet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 hc033694@hntp2.hinet.net (HSIAO Hsuei-cheng) writes: > The system always tell me `Sorry - PPP is not available on this system' > How ? I have compile `ppp' in my kernel. > Below is part of my config > pseudo-device ppp 2 #Point-to-point protocol That's it. It should be there. Are you sure the kernel compiled out of this config is the active one? Have a look at the output of netstat -i, the ppp devices must be there: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll ed0 1500 <Link>02.60.8c.4d.99.56 109559 0 110223 0 0 ed0 1500 192.168 uriah 109559 0 110223 0 0 lp0* 1500 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 tun0* 1500 <Link> 3376 0 3563 0 0 tun1* 1500 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 sl0* 552 <Link> 2673 4 2654 0 0 sl1* 552 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 ppp0* 1500 <Link> 27 0 24 0 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ lo0 16384 <Link> 14300 0 14300 0 0 lo0 16384 127 localhost 14300 0 14300 0 0 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)