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I posted here a few weeks ago about problems with pppd

I got the usual reply of read the man, faq, docs etc etc 
(I have, had and did (and will again) etc etc) and been over them again and
again but to no avail.
I originally had slackware 1.2.13 (elf binaries if that helps) which pppd
did work under, and a few months ago I upgraded to v2.0.28 and since have
been trying to get pppd to work. 
I have recompiled the kernel many many times using ppp in modules and in
the kernel itself with no luck but never got it going and then presumed
that it was the pppd program as i could get the ppp module to load but pppd
would just do nothing except display a message of:     PPPD - Is
unavailable on this system.
I figured that there was something wrong with the pppd program running
under the new kernel so got the source for 2.1.2d from the net, its not
included in the package in slakware only the binaries etc etc and tried to
recompile the pppd program but keeps looking the the define of  PPPIOCGTIME
in file lcp.c and a couple of others in a few other source files which I
cant find anywhere in any of the header files supplied with ppp-2.1.2d
distribution or in any of the linux 2.0.28 includes (searched through the
include/linux inludes and the include/asm includes as well) does anyone
know which header file this should be in ???(I presume it should be in the
if_ppp.h or ppp_defs.h as it is a part of linux and no other system
according to the code).
Does any one know if this is a kernel problem or a pppd problem or where i
cant start to work this out, I've been using linux for a couple of months
in between using windows95 (I wish my amiga had the same power :(  ) and
would rather use it and perhaps make a 386 router box for my computers, but
until I get this pppd problem solved im dialing out nowhere :( I dont have
the option of using slip.
Any one got any sugguestions or should i just buy a new rethat distribution
with the latest and greatest kernel and try that.
Oh yeah one other thing i put a old boot disk in the other day and found
pppd to work when it was used (was a 1.2.13 version) but unfortunated
1.2.13 is not a sollution for me as it never detected my ne2000 PCI clone.
This is why i presumed the pppd program needed to be recompiled under the
new kernel.
Sorry for the long winded request.

Mark Vandersteen
email:  mvanders@merlin.net.au   mvanders@senet.com.au
http://www.merlin.net.au/~mvanders/