[3594] in RedHat Linux List
kernel lacks PPP support?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Sat Nov 9 14:25:43 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 14:21:48 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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Todd Hutchinson writes:
>
> I've been trying to install ppp and have not had any success. I have
> edited the ppp-on script to my situation (phone numbers all that stuff).
> I then placed ppp-on in /sbin. Upon running ppp-on, I am receiving an
> error which says :
>
> Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
>
> I had recompiled the kernel prior to this. Once I got this message, I
> tried recompiling the kernel with different options. After several more
> recompilations, I decided to get help. When recompiling the kernel, my
> .config file had the following options:
>
> CONFIG_INET=y
> CONFIG_PPP=y
> CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL=y
>
> Is there something that I am missing? What could cause this conflict?
Have you tried 'suid pppd', by chmod 4755 pppd ?
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