From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 04:55:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0973016A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 04:55:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC7443D1F for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 04:55:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4O4tYmj019337; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:25:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Randy Bush Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:25:22 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <1116773182.8c338cbcnmace@myrealbox.com> <200505241232.42640.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <17042.41166.607333.510569@roam.psg.com> In-Reply-To: <17042.41166.607333.510569@roam.psg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1333821.fZK1S0GKgV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505241425.29767.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.8 () IN_REP_TO, PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Cc: Nathan Mace , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Syntax Error in Kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 04:55:40 -0000 --nextPart1333821.fZK1S0GKgV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 24 May 2005 13:04, Randy Bush wrote: > >>>> could someone explain why kernel ppp is needed at all? > >>> > >>> It's needed if you want to use it, of course :) > >> > >> the context is palm usb support > > > > Seems odd you would _need_ kernel PPP support for that.. > > seemed odd to me too. but take a look back up the thread, or > just at the reffed site, > > http://www.thedotin.net/maillists/coldsync-hackers/msg01954.html Hmm it says to run /usr/bin/ppp out of usbd which is userland PPP.. You don= 't=20 need ppp in the kernel for that, only if you are using pppd. The instrucions there look pretty identical for what you have to do to get = a=20 Pocket PC talking too :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1333821.fZK1S0GKgV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCkrPB5ZPcIHs/zowRAqyPAKCcd8dEBihQvaqFYiJMaXagL/r+tQCgiuQn aae1dPHvUVw7zFeoT2suPCk= =XdZC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1333821.fZK1S0GKgV--