** Reply to note from Andras Simonyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:36:40 +0200 (CEST) > > Hi, > on 21-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian Potato ( kernel 2.2.16 ) with Slink version KDE. > > > > When I start kppp it displays a message which says that I don't > > have ppp compiled > > into the kernel or loaded as a module which is wrong (I have ppp as > > a module). > > I ran into the same problem yesterday, (or was it today ?:), and for > my system (potato with kde stable for potato) the solution was to > upgrade kppp to the most recent version, 1.6.25 (I had to compile it > myself). Articles on Deja.com say that the older versions of kppp > relied on a bug in the kernels _before_ 2.2.14 IIRC. So the solution > seems to be either to upgrade kppp or to downgrade your kernel. > > Hope this helps > Andras Simonyi
That doesn't explain why the same error message is *not* displayed when running kppp as root. Barry Samuels
