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Installing ppp Software is a nightmare!
Hi,
Finally I've bought a modem : 28.8 USR Sportster and for already two weeks
I can't use it ( I mean no problem with dialin, but ppp doesn't work)
I've spent so many hours to try make it work, but in vain...
I'm very desperate, ( I'm regular to it since I try to ride the Linux horse)
So, I have a gibrid of Slack 2.3 ( base) and 3.0 , gcc 2.7.0 , DX486-100
16M RAM
First I've tried to use what I had from the distribution 3.0:
I've recompiled the kernel 1.3.20 to ppp support and was trying
to run precompiled pppd 2.12 (if I'm not wrong, the one from Slack 3.0)
When I started the pppd it was in air for a few seconds and then it was
down, I could gather no info from /var/admin/messages ./syslog
Also when I was running pppd i couldn't start minicom or seyon, it said
that /dev/modem was busy. If I was calling to the ppp provider I couldn't
start the pppd and I was getting NO CAREER in a 10 seconds.
I've decided to upgrade the pppd, went on pppd 2.2.0e --I couldn't compile
it since there were many functions with undefined type ( I found it was
something like u_int32_t I dont remember exactly, but it came to change
the "long" type , I found in the older versions. In documentation was
very vaguely said that the 2.2.0 should work with kernels 1.3.x but not
with the first ones , it wasn't said where the first one are finished. So
I heard the 1.3.49 is a stable kernel, and I decided to went on it. Now I
couldn't compile the ppp.c in the kernel, with the same problem (
undefined type) . I did run " make kernel" from pppd-2.2.0e. I went to the
2.2.0d and it was compiled successfully but it said wrong 0.0.0.0 version
when I run pppd I went the same way with 1.3.59 and getting the same
results -- nothing works! I read all the documentation, How-tos, and faqs
but I've found nothing to help my problems out...
I heard that the last kernels have ppp inside them, is it true. if so should
I try 1.3.66?
I don't provide any outputs from my system because there is nothing to show
It doesn't say what's wrong just "EXIT". ( I added debug option to the pppd
options)
Desperately need Any help...
BTW, I have found the fastest place to get last kernels: from
ftp.tau.ac.il pub/OS/linux/kernel .4M per 30 seconds But I can't ftp there
from most of the places, only from the Unix hosts, And I don't have 4M of
empty space to download the latest kernel. And I don't know how to do
this. Downloading 4M from any other host is hours of waiting... is there
any other host in the Israel? I think ftp.huji.ac.il has the same problems
...
Thanks in advance!
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Stas Bekman
Email: c0409532@techst02.technion.ac.il
Home Page: http://techunix.technion.ac.il/~ofelix