From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:24:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:23:58 -0500 Received: from pD905502B.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.5.80.43]:46597 "EHLO tron.dynodns.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:23:49 -0500 Message-ID: <003701c081e0$8544f440$0601a8c0@tron> From: "Daniel Mehrmnann" To: In-Reply-To: <200101190610.f0J6AUK05724@caliban.org> Subject: Re: pppoe in 2.4.0 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:24:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macdonald" To: Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:10 AM Subject: Re: pppoe in 2.4.0 > On 19 Jan 2001 03:51:20 +0100 in caliban.linux.kernel, you wrote: > > >Does anyone have pppoe working with 2.4.0? > > > >I'm running 2.4.0-ac9 with ppp and pppoe compiled into the kernel (I've > >tried with modules too) > > > >The pppd simply refuses to acknowlege the presence of ppp support in the > >kernel. > >The last release of pppd was in august 2000. Was this before the ppp > >interface in the > >kernel was overhauled? > > Have you aliased the new module name to ppp? > > I'm using pppd just for simple dial-up from home, but I needed to add > the following line to /etc/modules.conf before pppd would load the > correct module: > > alias ppp ppp_async > Yes, PPPoE works fine with 2.4.0. PLEASE read $YOUR_KERNEL_SOURCE/Documentation/CHANGES and setup your alias correctly. For example (my System): /etc/modules.conf: ---------------cut----------------- # Ok, here we start with 2.4.x stuff ! # LVM 0.9 alias alias block-major-58 lvm-mod alias char-major-109 lvm-mod #CPU alias char-major-10-184 microcode #PPP alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate #end 2.4.0 ---------------cut-------------------- daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/