Re: is there an easier way to set up ppp other than recompiling the kernel??

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:00

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In <76e1cl$4in$1@newnews.startext.net> "James A. Parker" <alans@arlington.net> writes:

>just having probs. trying to set up ppp for lred hat ver 5.1 it seems that
>no matter what i do the ppp conection just does not dial out. HELP!!

Do not recompile the kernel. Everything you need is already there.
a) make sure that you are running kerneld. (ps aux|grep kerneld)
(make sure that the files in /etc/rc.d/rc[3-5].d mnamely S01kerneld are
soft links to /etc/rc.d/init.d/kerneld and that file exists.
Then run /etc/rc.d/init.c/kerneld start
Finally run /usr/sbin/pppd to see if it runs (never mind any error
message except the one that says ppp not in the kernel. That just means
that kerneld is not running)

b) Make sure that /usr/sbin/pppd is mode rwsrxrx ( chmod 4755
/usr/sbin/pppd as root)

Now you have to get it up and running. The easiest way may be to use
linuxconf in the networking section. Then you can run ifup ppp0 to start
ppp

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Date: 1998/12/31
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