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From: Mike Markowski <mm@××××.Edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:07:23
Message-Id: 45BCC8DE.9010303@udel.edu
1 I have a ~x86 box that is dial up only and uses ppp. Last weekend an
2 'emerge -uD world' seemed to complete without issue but now I can't make
3 a ppp connection as seen by the error attached below. I admit to not
4 knowing my way around udev yet & what I've read isn't helping with this.
5 I'm guessing I need to recreate something somehow. Penetrating
6 insight... Does anyone see what it is I'm missing that causes the
7
8 udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for
9 '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed
10
11 error below? There's no ppp0 directory under /sys/class/net/ but I
12 don't know what creates it.
13
14 Thanks very much,
15 Mike
16
17 === snipped from /var/log/messages ===
18
19 Jan 27 15:40:03 home PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
20 Jan 27 15:40:03 home pppd[9349]: pppd 2.4.4 started by mm, uid 0
21 Jan 27 15:40:04 home chat[9360]: abort on (BUSY)
22 Jan 27 15:40:04 home chat[9360]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
23
24 [...typical modem connect msgs...]
25
26 Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Serial connection established.
27 Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Using interface ppp0
28 Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
29 Jan 27 15:40:42 home udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for
30 '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed
31 Jan 27 15:40:42 home udev-net.sh: /etc/init.d/net.ppp0: does not exist
32 or is not executable
33 Jan 27 15:40:48 home pppd[9349]: Modem hangup
34 Jan 27 15:40:48 home pppd[9349]: Connection terminated.
35 Jan 27 15:40:48 home udev-net.sh: /etc/init.d/net.ppp0: does not exist
36 or is not executable
37 Jan 27 15:40:49 home pppd[9349]: Exit.
38 --
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