Re: 2.3.43 breaks pppd! (SOLVED, possible config gotcha)

From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 17:18:41 EST


>Why then I'm using PPP without any problems and without KMOD with 2.3.44?
>Well, probably because of that I have either PPP compiled into kernel
>or load it as a module. But I don't need KMOD for that!

Right, if you compile it into the kernel, it will obviously work. But
if you compile it as a module *without* also requesting KMOD, then it
will not work *even when* you manually insmod the required modules.
Or at least, thats been my experience. Maybe I didn't load all the
required modules, now that I think of it - without kmod, it would have
been missing slhc and the other compression modules. Sigh.

anyway, things that can be compiled a module *and* require a major
device number that is also implemented with a module should verify
that KMOD is turned on.

--p

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