Re: pppoe in 2.4.0

[Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>]

Thank you all.  I was silly and didn't create the /dev/ppp device.

On 19 Jan 2001 07:10:30 +0100, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> 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
> 
> However, I couldn't get PPP to work when I compiled it directly into
> the kernel.
> 
> Ian
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