🚀 go-pugleaf

In <36A00DE1.25370BD@zip.com.au> Tony Collins <ned@zip.com.au> writes:

>I dial with minicom, connect to my ISP and get the login and password
>prompts.  I enter them and get the menu to start protocols.  I choose
>PPP, and the appropriate garbage starts.  I then exit minicom without
>reset, and type pppd.
>It then says:
>"This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because the
>PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is not configured
>for
>PPP.  See the readme.linux file in the ppp-2.3.5 distribution".

This almost certainly means that you are not running kerneld. It is
essential so that your system can load the ppp module.
If you are on redhat, 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/kerneld start

Also, once you get ppp started by your method, transfer the steps inot a
chat script (eg ppp-on-dialer script) and use something like ppp-on to
start ppp.