[Techtalk] KPP Problem

[kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net]

Hi all again:

Thanks for the help. According to you lot I have done the following but 
still no luck.

* There is no entry called /dev/modem
*chmod 666 /dev/ttys*
*chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
*crwxr-xr-x to 5 entries in /dev/ppp*

One thing: I have dialed the net with this same modem.

Well, about the kernel everything you have said over my head. I'm using a 
standard Redhat kernel. And yes I have these four entries

>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/wan/syncppp.o

And I am running everything as root.

I have never seen such a problem before. What should I do now?


At 12:46 PM 4/27/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net wrote:
> > > I'm facing this problem in my freshly installed RHL 7.2. While
> > > dialing in
> > > kppp it says:
> > >
> > > "time out expired while waiting for the ppp interface to come up"
> > > and it
> > > hang out while in the 'waiting to connect' mode.
>[ ... ]
> > > Apr 27 14:50:50 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
>
>Poppy Casper writes:
> > I had a similar problem with Gnomeppp when I set up my box... I wound up
> > switching to wvdial, but in so doing, discovered that my problem was
> > that my user didn't have permission to both pppd and /dev/modem...
>
>Redhat unfortunately isn't very modem-friendly.  I got tired of always
>having to rediscover how to set up the modem every time I installed
>a new Redhat version, so I wrote a page on it to remind myself:
>
>    http://shallowsky.com/linux-modem.html
>
>I don't know how well this applies to Redhat 7.2 -- my 7.2 box is on
>DSL and doesn't have a modem installed -- but it might be useful.
>(Do keep us posted when you figure this out -- if 7.2 needs extra
>work to get PPP going, I'll put those instructions on the page too.)
>
>However, from your kernel message, it sounds like you need a ppp
>module in the kernel.  Are you using the standard Redhat kernel, or
>did you compile your own?  I looked for ppp kernel modules installed
>in the redhat kernel on my 7.2 machine:
>(imbrium)- cd /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/
>(imbrium)- find . -name "*ppp*"
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.o
>./kernel/drivers/net/wan/syncppp.o
>(I don't think syncppp is needed; at least, my 7.1 laptop, where PPP
>works, doesn't have that module.)
>
>If you don't have the four ppp_* modules, you may need to reinstall the
>kernel (or rebuild your kernel with PPP configured, if you're running
>a custom one).
>
>It would be useful to see whether modprobe gives any errors if you run it
>manually (as root).  I'm not sure what argument to give to modprobe as the
>"main PPP module" (anyone know?) but you could try loading all of these:
>   modprobe ppp_deflate ppp_async ppp_generic ppp_synctty
>and see if it prints any errors.
>
>Do you have /dev/ppp?  Is it readable/writable by you?  (ls -l /dev/ppp*)
>
>         ...Akkana
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