🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello, all.

I am attempting to set up Linux RedHat 5.1 on an Intel Pentium Pro
machine.  Aside from trying to install the PPPD, everything has gone
smoothely.  I am, in fact, manually connected to my ISP through
Minicom right now.

However, when I attempt to run pppd, I get the following message:

  pppd: 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-2.3.3
  distribution.

Following those directions, I end up in /usr/doc/ppp-2.3.3, and read
the named file.  Skipping the preamble, the procedural instructions
begin:

  1. Issue the command:

  ./configure

  from the top level directory of pppd.  This is the directory which
  contains this README.linux file.  The result of this will be to build
  a set of symbolic links to the makefiles.   They should link
  'Makefile' to 'Makefile.linux' in each of the directories.

The problem is, that file does not seem to exist, either in that
director or in any subdirectory.  There are files littered around the
hard drive named 'configure' but none of them in any directories that
have anything to do wih PPP.

If anyone can tell me where I might find a reasonable copy of that
file, where it is actually supposed to be run from, and whether it is
a good idea to do so, I would be grateful.

Now, failing that, I've tried to rebuild the kernel properly.  The
default kernel configuration that comes up when I use 'make xconfig'
implies that PPP support has been compiled as a module. Thus, I
attempted to use the built-in Kernel Daemon Configuration tool
bundled with the distribution of Xwindows.  No dice.  It recognizes
modules, but not PPP support.

I then tried to rebuild the kernel itself, compiling PPP support for
real.   The problem is, for various reasons, I boot RH5.1 from a boot
disk, rather than a hard drive configuration of LILO.  I got that
up and running simply by telling the install to make me a boot disk
and to skip LILO.

What this _seems_ to have done is install LILO on the floppy disk.
When I boot with that floppy, it gives me the LILO prompt and then
takes me in.  There is no /etc/lilo.conf on the hard drive, but it
works.  I don't know how to build a kernel and then make sure that the
boot disk knows about it.

Please help.

Thanks.

-- 
John S. Novak, III           jsn@cris.com
The Humblest Man on the Net