[ale] Re: PPP (fwd)

[David Cleveland Haynes]

Greg wrote: 
> I have a working 2.0 kernel, but whenever I try to dial up my provider, I 
> get this message:
> 
> "Sorry, this system lacks PPP kernel support."
> 
> This is not the obvious problem. PPP is compiled in, support is checked 
> "yes" in the .config file and PPP is recognized at boot time with all the 
> right messages. Given all of that, what could trigger the message above? 
> This is driving me nuts.

   I had the same problem with my system until I upgraded pppd, the daemon
that interacts with the kernel. I am now running Linux 2.0 with ppp-2.2.0f
with ppp compiled in as a module ( so I get BSD compression ) and have had
no problems with it.


						Dav