From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 25 11:41:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB83037B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valiant.cnchost.com (valiant.concentric.net [207.155.252.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C1043E6A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by valiant.cnchost.com id OAA09782; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:41:34 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200210251841.OAA09782@valiant.cnchost.com> To: Brooks Davis Cc: Dave Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:31:40 PDT." <20021025113137.A23521@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:41:33 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:15:55PM +0000, Dave Evans wrote: > > Is anyone using pppd on CURRENT. somewhere between may and October it > > seems to have broken. My KERNEL is GENERIC, my sources are dated cvs > > -D2002-10-20, but I now get a message about needing facilities in the > > kernel. However, the kernel has many ppp entry points, I haven't > > modified GENERIC which loads the ppp device, I've tried loading modules > > with ppp in their name all to no avail. > > You need to create an interface first. Run "ifconfig ppp create". Until pppd is taught to create the interface if one doesn't exist, this information needs to be in /usr/src/UPDATING. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message