Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Kent West wrote: > But you mention that your modem is a USB device, and I've never played > with those, so I can't really give you any direction, except to repeat > once again that I don't think you've got the kernel quite right yet. May be the kernel config is still like: [

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > I'm thinking you don't actually have ppp configured properly in the > kernel. I think ppp is fine but he may need some USB related options. I know nothing about USB either. Would someone who does please speak up? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse H

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Ben Hill wrote: > I installed ppp via the debian package and when I ran it it griped about > the kernel not having support for it, although I did build the kernel > with ppp in it! Pppd sometimes produces this misleading message when the actual problem has to do with permissions. It's a know bug.

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread Kent West
Ben Hill wrote: Firstly I build and compiled the kernel with ppp support and booted it. I then set up PPP from the tarball, then: /configure make make install I installed ppp via the debian package and when I ran it it griped about the kernel not having support for it, although I did build th

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Oki DZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:16 AM Subject: Re: pppd Doing Nothing! > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Ben Hill wrote: > > I have managed to get p

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Ben Hill wrote: > I have managed to get ppp compiled and installed with the kernel > modules, however, when I run pppd nothing happens! I have got it > installed (so I think) and there is nothing being written to > /var/log/messages. You are supposed to run it via pon/poff.

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Ben Hill writes: > Firstly I build and compiled the kernel with ppp support and booted it. What kernel version? > ...when I run pppd nothing happens! _Exactly_ what did you do and _exactly_ what happened? > I then set up PPP from the tarball,... Which version? Why didn't you install the Debia

Re: pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-27 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I have managed to get ppp compiled and installed with the kernel >modules, however, when I run pppd nothing happens! I have got it >installed (so I think) and there is nothing being written to /var/log/messages. > > >Firstly I build and compiled the kernel with

pppd Doing Nothing!

2001-11-27 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I have managed to get ppp compiled and installed with the kernel modules, however, when I run pppd nothing happens! I have got it installed (so I think) and there is nothing being written to /var/log/messages. Firstly I build and compiled the kernel with ppp support and booted it. I then