Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:42:05 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dialing into ISP Message-ID: <199806072242.XAA28261@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jun 1998 16:43:08 EDT." <199806072039.QAA17885@zephyr.cybercom.net>
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> I was trying to set up a PPP or SLIP connection to my ISP, but haven't had > any luck. I followed the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook in section > 15.1 concerning setting up PPP, but when I try to run ppp, I get the message: > > ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libdes.so.3.0" >From ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT o The ppp program fails to work, citing a missing shared library called "libdes.so.3.0". Fix: There are three possible fixes: 1. The easiest fix is to simply install the des distribution with /stand/sysinstall, remembering to pick a site that will allow you to export it if you're outside the United States and Canada (ftp.freebsd.org and ftp.internat.freebsd.org both fall into this category). 2. Purely as a work-around, and what you may need to do if ppp also constitutes your only way of getting to the net, is to simply do the following (as root): cp /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2.0 /usr/lib/libdes.so.3.0 ldconfig -m /usr/lib 3. Another fix, and one which doesn't involve having to fetch the DES bits, is to install the ppp sources in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp and rebuild them. The sources are "smart" enough to know that the DES library isn't on the system and won't create a binary which depends on it. NOTE: If you choose the 2nd or 3rd fixes, you also will not be able to use MSCHAP (Microsoft Win*) style authentication. > For what it's worth, this is a 2.2.6 system. Any help or pointers to the > relevant docs are appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > K.S. > > PS -- I've seen references to other connection methods such as iijppp (sp?) > and dip, but for the life of me, I can't find them in the distribution. > Are they still available for use in 2.2.6? ``iijppp'' is the original name of user-ppp or just ``ppp''. The alternative is ``pppd'' which is more familiar to people outside of the FreeBSD world. ``dip'', I believe, is a port. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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