Re: [LUG] PPP link prob

[claws at thewildbeast.co.uk]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:26:29 -0000 (GMT)
John Horne <J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:


> BTW - for those thinking of the 2.4.2 kernel - make sure you get a 2.4
> version of pppd. Without it, as I found, ppp doesn't work (drops the
> connection), and without it you can't download the 2.4 rpm because you need
> ppp, which doesn't work, so you need to download the 2.4 rpm but you need
> ppp, which doesn't work, so you need to download the 2.4 rpm...:-) You get
> the picture.

You need all the following for  a kernel 2.4.x
(taken from the kernel-2.4.x-HOWTO)

* Gnu C 
# gcc --version 
Should be at least version 2.91.66 

* Gnu make 
# make --version 
Should be at least version 3.77 

* binutils 
# ld -v 
Should be at least version 2.9.1.0.25 

* util-linux 
# fdformat --version 
Should be at least version 2.10o 

* modutils 
# insmod -V 
Should be at least version 2.4.0 

* e2fsprogs 
# tune2fs --version 
Should be at least version 1.19 

* pcmcia-cs 
# cardmgr -V 
Should be at least version 3.1.21 

* PPP 
# pppd --version 
Should be at least version 2.4.0 

* isdn4k-utils 
# isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version 
Should be at least version 3.1beta7 


regards

Paul

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