Marlon Urias wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: > > > Marlon Urias wrote: > > > > > > After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I > > > tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. > > > So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src > > > only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under > > > the impression that /usr/src/linux always existed. How can I reconfigure > > > my kernel under these circumstances? Do I need to download the source? Am > > > I looking in the right place? Help. Thank you. marlon > > > > My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained > > 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/' > > My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird > thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd. > thanks. >
the trick is that kernel-source 2.2.1 is on offical cd #2. but you don't have to recompile your kernel to get ppp to work just make sure that your /etc/modules file has the modules "serial ppp slhc slip" in it. Maybe this is overkill, but this is always how I've done it..... -Paul The impossible may be possible...but why?
