Re: [gentoo-user] (mostly) good news!

[Dale]

maxim wexler wrote:

>Hello everybody,
>
>Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed
>past the point of no return and dropped me into my new
>gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA
>partition.
>
>What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then
>emerge --sync && emerge -Du system && emerge -Du
>gentoo-sources. Phew! 24 hours -- no phone!
>
>I'm now using the 2.6.14-r4 kernel. As opposed to the
>*r2 which didn't seem to work
>
>--the bad news
>
>Using my grub floppy I can get in but PPP balks at:
>...
>pppd: Serial connection established
>pppd: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid
>argument.
>...
>and it hangs up.
>
>The only thing that's changed is that I've modularized
>the PPP drivers and have to modprobe them. But all the
>config files: resolv, secrets etc are the same as
>before when I would boot the LiveCD, mount and chroot
>to the SATA partition /dev/sda6 which held my
>fully(except for the booting part) functioning OS, and
>from where the web was accessible via pon and PPP.
>
>So I'm still stuck as far as using web is concerned
>with the OS on my IDE drive where pon also works a la
>sudo.
>
>Here's grep "=[ym]" for the new kernel in case some
>sharp-eyed soul might see the source of my difficulty.
>Or even of my triumph over non-bootingness since at
>best I was making educated guesses about what works
>and what doesn't :)
>
>
Well, I don't know about everybody else but I compile my ppp stuff in my
kernel.  pon and poff works fine here.  May be worth a shot.

This is how my config looks:

> <*>   PPP (point-to-point protocol) support
>  [ ]     PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL)
>  [*]     PPP filtering
> <*>     PPP support for async serial ports
> <*>     PPP support for sync tty ports
>  <*>     PPP Deflate compression
> <*>     PPP BSD-Compress compression

That is from the config screen itself, not the .config file.

Dale
:-)


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1:  Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.  
2:  Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
3:  Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
4:  Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.

All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.  

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