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To check if PPP support is compiled into your kernel, at least on my
heavily upgraded Slackware system ...

just watch the boot up messages ... or after logging in do a 'dmesg |
more' and watch for the 'ppp' configuration messages ... should be
about 6 lines (?) within the first third of the messages.

I don't remember about my default kernal after my first install as I
immediately re-compiled to add in sound support for my SoundBlaster
PnP card.  That was a year ago (Christmas 1996) and I haven't looked
back!

I just recently posted my PPP dialup scripts to comp.os.linux.help if
you'd like to take a look at them.

Good luck ... it works well, is very powerful from a configuration
point of view and very flexible for changing situations.  The earlier
versions of Win95 DialUp were very clunky and feature poor, the newer
ones seem to have resolved some of those problems.  

corliss@odin.org (Arthur Corliss) wrote:

>On 24 Jan 98 08:40:30 GMT, Eric Fernance <fernancee@bigpond.com> wrote:
>>People,
>>
>>Any help on this one is appreciated.
>>
>>I have recently been trying to install PPP support under Red Hat Linux ver.
>>4.2. Unfortunately being a newbie I am not too keen on getting in an
>>recompiling the kernel. Does anyone know of any way to install support for
>>PPP without having to do this?
>>
>>Is there a program I can run similiar to the Dial up Networking feature
>>included in Windows '95.
>>
>>Eric Fernance.
>>fernancee@bigpond.com

>I'm using slackware, but I don't believe this should make a difference.  If
>you're using a kernel off of the CD or a boot disk, odds are it doesn't have
>a lot of the networking functions built into the kernel.  There's really no
>way around it, you'll have to compile a new one.  Then you get the fun of
>setting the scripts up correctly.
>
>Don't get too worried about this, it'll become old hat eventually,  In the
>meantime, there's plenty of us to help with specific problems. 


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