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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>
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Subject: Re: Sorry - PPP is not available on your system
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> Ok, another silly question.
> Thanks for everybodies patience with me.
> 
> What have I done to get
> 
> Sorry, ppp is not available on your system?
> 
> Have I somehow missed something in the kernel?
> 
> What would I have to add to sysconfig to get arround this?

You need to add a 

pseudo-device ppp 1 

to your kernel config file.