Re: pppoe in 2.4.0

[Bernd Kaindl]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Daniel Mehrmnann wrote:
> #PPP
> alias char-major-108    ppp_generic
> alias /dev/ppp          ppp_generic

Kann es sein, daß wir das "alias /dev/ppp" für ppp mit devfs brauchen?
Hat das schon jemand getestet?
Unterstützen wir devfs für unseren 2.4 Kernel auf 7.1?
Gibt es dafür schon einen Punkt im Handbuch?
                    ein Howto?
		    oder einen SDB-Artikel?

cu, Bernd

Complete Mail: On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Daniel Mehrmnann wrote:
> From: Daniel Mehrmnann <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:34:05 +0100
> Subject: Re: pppoe in 2.4.0
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Macdonald" <[e-mail]>
> To: <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:10 AM
> Subject: Re: pppoe in 2.4.0
> 
> 
> > On 19 Jan 2001 03:51:20 +0100 in caliban.linux.kernel, you wrote:
> >
> > >Does anyone have pppoe working with 2.4.0?
> > >
> > >I'm running 2.4.0-ac9 with ppp and pppoe compiled into the kernel
> (I've
> > >tried with modules too)
> > >
> > >The pppd simply refuses to acknowlege the presence of ppp support
> in the
> > >kernel.
> > >The last release of pppd was in august 2000.  Was this before the
> ppp
> > >interface in the
> > >kernel was overhauled?
> >
> > Have you aliased the new module name to ppp?
> >
> > I'm using pppd just for simple dial-up from home, but I needed to
> add
> > the following line to /etc/modules.conf before pppd would load the
> > correct module:
> >
> > alias ppp ppp_async
> >
> 
> Yes, PPPoE works fine with 2.4.0. PLEASE read
> $YOUR_KERNEL_SOURCE/Documentation/CHANGES and setup your alias
> correctly.
> For example (my System):
> 
> /etc/modules.conf:
> 
> ---------------cut-----------------
> # Ok, here we start with 2.4.x stuff !
> # LVM 0.9
> alias alias block-major-58      lvm-mod
> alias char-major-109            lvm-mod
> 
> #CPU
> alias char-major-10-184 microcode
> 
> #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
> #end 2.4.0
> ---------------cut--------------------
> 
> daniel
> 
> 
> 
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