> This was discussed on linux-kernel a while ago. The problem as Martin Mares
> wrote is in the parsing of the kernel version in pppd. You need to fix the
> pppd source yourself and recompile pppd. The latest pppd does not contain
> the fix. Look for strcmp(utsname.release, "2.1.16") in pppd/sys-linux.c
> and replace these expressions with (1). This is because all kernels >=
> 2.1.100 compare less than "2.1.16" stringwise. Alternately you can hack
> your pppd binary and replace "2.1.16" with "2.1.00".
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:22:49 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au
To: davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com, nkbj@image.dk, arcangeli@mbox.queen.it,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, markorr@intersurf.com,
jinbo21@soback.kornet.nm.kr, linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: ppp-2.3.5 out now
ppp-2.3.5 is now available in ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/.
It no longer uses strcmp for testing the version number of the running
kernel, so it should hopefully work on 2.1.100. (I don't currently
have a machine running pre-100 to test it on.)
Paul Mackerras.
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