*BSD News Article 80009


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPPD
Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:31:40 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <536gjc$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <534pjh$21e@pandora.vision.net.au>
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 0.9.6
X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669
X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F  93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E

mvanloon@vision.net.au (Mark van Loon) wrote:

> So far I have been able to set up SLIP support, but no luck with PPP.
> Every time I try to run PPPD I get the message " Soory - PPP not
> available on this system." The system was setup with a basic User file
> set. (No Kernel source etc.)

Install the kernel source tree, and create a kernel config with

pseudo-device ppp 4

(or how many simultaneous PPP sessions you're anticipating).

Refer to the handbook about how to configure, build and install a
kernel.

-- 
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. ;-)