trouble w/ modularized PPP and 2.1.17

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:12:13 +0100

I should have known I was talking too soon when I said I could
run PPP w/ kerneld on 2.1.16 without any problems... now, on
2.1.17, if I start pppd I get "this system lacks PPP support"
even if modules.dep and modules.conf seem to be set up OK...

I upgraded then modules from 2.1.8 to 2.1.13 but no news.

Then I tried insmod'ing slhc.o and ppp.o, which succeeded but
even though ppp0 came up with P-t-P OK, I could not ping my
ISP (no send LED blinking on my modem) and I got these

Dec 23 23:52:01 redrose pppd[406]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Dec 23 23:52:24 redrose pppd[406]: Serial connection established.
Dec 23 23:52:25 redrose pppd[406]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 23 23:52:25 redrose pppd[406]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua1
Dec 23 23:52:25 redrose pppd[406]: local IP address 194.21.90.53
Dec 23 23:52:25 redrose kernel: pppd forgot to specify route netmask.
Dec 23 23:52:25 redrose pppd[406]: remote IP address 194.21.90.2
Dec 23 23:52:42 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=232)
Dec 23 23:53:02 redrose last message repeated 4 times
Dec 23 23:53:04 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=248)
Dec 23 23:53:08 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=232)
Dec 23 23:53:11 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=248)
Dec 23 23:53:12 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=232)
Dec 23 23:53:14 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=248)
Dec 23 23:53:18 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=232)
Dec 23 23:53:20 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1056)
Dec 23 23:53:21 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=248)
Dec 23 23:53:22 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=232)
Dec 23 23:53:24 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=248)
Dec 23 23:53:28 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=232)
Dec 23 23:53:30 redrose kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=1056)

etc, etc, until I rebooted into 2.1.16 which has no trouble in
dialing up my ISP and talking (btw with modules 2.1.13 now).

Did I do anything dumb in building 2.1.17 ?

Thanks in advance,

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux kernel-2.1.16 libc-5.4.17 gcc-2.7.2 binutils-2.7.0.3