From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 24 01:18:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA16124 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:18:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA16101 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA17435; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:18:16 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA24279; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:18:15 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA00518; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 09:56:45 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603240856.JAA00518@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Kernel and PPP To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 09:56:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: york@fvl.k12.mi.us (Jason D. York) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <31548FA1.4F2BE443@fvl.k12.mi.us> from "Jason D. York" at Mar 23, 96 06:56:17 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jason D. York wrote: > I am having problems. (You're message is totally unreadable. Please, restrain mails to 75 characters per line for readability. Netcrap is not doing you any good at this when abusing it as an email tool.) > The first problem is that I cannot get the if_mod_ppp.o module to > load. I cannot find out anywhere what to feed modload for the entry > point of the module. The second problem may be related to the The generic names of the entry points are ``_foo_init''. However, it seems that if_ppp_mod doesn't follow this convention, or somebody forgot it. :-( > first. somehow on my installation I did not get the kernel source. > I figured that if I could get ppp running I could just use > /stand/sysinstall and get the kernel, but I need ppp. Anyway I > would be overjoyed if you could tell me how to get that ppp module > loaded so I could use pppd. You only need ``IIJ-PPP'', it is in /usr/sbin/ppp, and it doesn't require the ppp kernel interface (since it uses the `tun0' interface). So, it is ready to run for you. (We have two PPP implementations to chose from.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)