Re: devel kernel ppp bug

From: Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 19:26:16 EST


On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> From: "Will Ledbetter" <wledbetter@windrivers.net>
> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 04:21:05 +0800
>
> I recently compiled 2.3.36 to find this error when the pppd was called:
> (root)[~]#ppp-go
> (root)[~]#Serial connection established.
> ioctl(TIOCSETD): Invalid argument(22)
>
> Are you sure you compiled in PPP support? This smells like PPP support
> wasn't compiled in, OR PPP support was compiled as a module, and the PPP
> module wasn't installed properly.

I recently hit this. It is because the ppp module name has changed. It was
"ppp.o", now there's "ppp_async.o", "ppp_sync.o" (or similar). I didn't
bother to track it down much more, I just did a manual insmod of anything
sounding vaguely ppp related :-)

Cheers
Chris

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