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Hi, |
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I found why ppp wasn't working. It wad due to the fact that /dev/ppp was not |
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created. |
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So i do mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and then it work. It was just an error from |
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me. |
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So my gentoo workstation is now up and running and it's really a fine distro. |
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Thanks |
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On Friday 02 March 2001 15:28, you wrote: |
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> Philippe Namias wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > Yesterday i installed Gentoo Linux on my home workstation. |
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> > So i notice few bug : |
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> > |
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> > First GRUB didn't work on my hardware i have a MSI 694 Pro D motherboard |
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> > with two DMA channel and two UDMA channle on a in board promise UDMA 100. |
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> > |
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> > So GRUB is unbale to find my disk on the promise UDMA 100 but find it on |
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> > the normal DMA channel. (I think this is due to BIOS as GRUB try to find |
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> > disk info from the BIOS and the Promise UDMA 100 Bios is apart from the |
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> > computer BIOS.) |
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> > |
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> > Then i run Gentoo with the sotck kernel provided and try at the command |
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> > line : /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart i got error message (line 26 and 50) |
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> > i didn't look at the script but the initialisation of network pass. |
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> > |
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> > Next trouble i have is one that really push my head on a wall : |
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> > So i boot Gentoo with the stock kernel provided , then i do a pkmerge of |
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> > linux-source-...tbz2 and pppd-...-.tbz2, i load the modules for my |
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> > network card and for ppp as i use ppp for connecting to the internet. |
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> > Then i got a wierd behaviour from pppd telling that ppp generic is not |
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> > loaded but when i do lsmod i got it. |
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> > |
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> > So i decided to recompile the kernel , i selected all that feet my needs |
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> > and reboot. The new kernel boot without problem but PPP is still not |
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> > loaded but i choose it to be load directly in kernel (not a modules), |
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> > this as never worked all the other options worked but PPP never passe. |
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> > |
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> > So i reinstall gentoo and recompile my kernel in the chroot mode. |
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> > So all goes well , i reboot and now hourra i see PPP generic ... |
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> > The i do a pkmerge of ppp-...-.tbz2 run pppd and he tell me that PPP is |
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> > not present in my kernel? |
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> > |
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> > So i see two possibillity to this bug or i do something bad but ireally |
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> > don't know what or the ppp stuff in this kernel is broken or the |
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> > ppp-...-.tbz2 is broken |
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> > |
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> > Any one have an idea ? |
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> |
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> Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documenattion/Changes. |
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> There are a few aliases in modules.conf required in order to get pppd |
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> working. |
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> Remember to copy modules.conf to /etc/modules/[kernelversion] because |
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> this file gets |
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> copied to /etc/modules.conf on boot. |
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> This behaviour will change in the next release. |
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> achim~ |
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> > PS : i also found that my memory was bad during installing gentoo i |
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> > changed it on now my workstation work without rebooting for no reasons :) |
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> > |
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