Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 10:44:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net> To: jspringr@tribeca.ios.com (Jeffrey Springer) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd NOT AVAILABLE Message-ID: <199507091544.KAA19301@mpp.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <199507091028.KAA17633@tribeca.ios.com> from "Jeffrey Springer" at Jul 9, 95 10:28:45 am
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> I am having problems with dynamic Slip - sometimes it works, othertimes
> it doesn't - so I tried ppp. I looked up pppd in the man pages, followed
> the directions (connected to my host through cu, suspended cu, typed "pppd")
> only to see a message that "pppd is not available on your system."
>
> If it's in the man pages (and there is a "pppd" file) why is it not
> available? How or where can I obtain it? Can I do anything on my system
> to get it to work?
You need to rebuild a kernel with some ppp interfaces defined. Add
the following line to your kernel configuration file:
pseudo-device ppp 1
Why don't we change pppd with the following patch to give a
better error message? This question seems to come up a lot
here and in the newsgroups, and the current error message isn't
really very clear as to what the problem is.
--- orig/main.c Sun Jul 9 10:35:22 1995
+++ ./main.c Sun Jul 9 10:38:08 1995
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
gid = getgid();
if (!ppp_available()) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Sorry - PPP is not available on this system\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "There are no PPP interfaces configured on this system\n");
exit(1);
}
--
Mike Pritchard
mpp@legarto.minn.net
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