I've installed potato on a laptop and want it to be able to have a PCMCIA Ethernet connection and be capable of a direct PPP connection (without a modem). During the installation, I configured PCMCIA and then the network parameters for the Ethernet interface. I included PPP when configuring the drivers for the kernel. So I think I have everything in the kernel (or as modules) that I need.
The Ethernet interface works fine. When trying to bring up the PPP connection logging in syslog indicates that the kernel is registering device ppp0. pppd is started fine, but then it says that pppd is connecting ppp8 to /dev/ttyS1. Then there is an error that says that modprobe can't locate module ppp8 and pppd fails. I rebuilt the kernel yesterday and got PPP working with that kernel, but when I did that I managed to mess up the PCMCIA stuff (I don't have much experience with laptops) so I lost the Ethernet. Now I'm back to the potato distribution kernel. I've searched all over for a configuration file or something that specifies this ppp8 thing, but can find nothing. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks...
