More kernel calamaties

[Gayle29uk]

Ok, the saga so far. Having managed (thanks to queball) to do a make bzImage on the RH8 kernel I go on to find the make install (don't ask, RH8 is trying to be clever and failing miserably) and it fails. I've scrapped that idea, reinstalled from scratch (having remembered to save my /etc directory this time!), and downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org.

I set the config up, no problems. Forget modules, no complications, straight monolithic kernel with the bits I need. Compiled and ran first time, both NICs now detected and working but ppp is now broken If I try to run ppp it says the kernel is not compiled with ppp support.

[gayle@server linux-2.4.20]$ cat .config|grep PPP
CONFIG_PPP=y
# CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK is not set
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
# CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY is not set
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
# CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP is not set
# CONFIG_PPPOE is not set

That's the relevant parts of the config file I used to compile the kernel, any ideas anyone?

[MT]

> # grep PPP .config
CONFIG_PPP=y
# CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK is not set
# CONFIG_PPP_FILTER is not set
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=m
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m
# CONFIG_PPPOE is not set

Hope that helps.

Have you set up the aliases correctly?

> # cat /etc/modules.d/ppp 
alias char-major-108	ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp		ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3	ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14	ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21	bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24	ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26	ppp_deflate
alias net-pf-24		pppoe

obviously you dont need pppoe. I dont even know why I have it \o/

Also have you made the /dev/ppp node? If you are using devfs it should be made automatically, but you may need to mknod it - google for the precise syntax required.

[Gayle29uk]

I built a monolithic kernel so I shouldn't need the aliases whould I?

I'll try the mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 when I get home and see if that helps