PPP on Linux 2.4.2

[MGMorden]

The last time I was using a modem under Linux was 2.2.16, where PPP was working fine for me. Well, for the next week (and all summer) i'll need to use a modem to get to the net, but I now have the 2.4.2 kernel, where there doesn't appear to be just a ppp module but rather a ppp_generic and a ppp_async module. The problem is that when I load either (or both) of these using modprobe, KDE's Internet Dialer reports the ppp daemon as not being loaded. Am I loading the wrong module or what? Any help w/ this would be greatly appreciated (right now I'm stuck using Windows for net access).

 

[Damaged]

Sure the modules are actually loaded? Did you do a lsmod to check? If they aren't loaded try insmod <module-name>.

<edit> Oops. Looks like it isn't loading pppd. Try tailing /var/log/messages. You can run tail -f /var/log/messages in a term to watch it happen live. </edit>

 

[MGMorden]

I didn't check using lsmod, but I did manually load them with insmod and modprobe (what is the difference between these two?) and it wouldn't work for me. I'm downloading something now (gotta get staroffice for my family. found out my brother and sister have been typing all their papers in wordpad ) so I can't reboot, but I'll get into linux and try it some more tommorow.

 

[BOFH]

You need to update to at least ppp 2.4 if you want it to work. I ran into this on a RH 7.0 box were all else worked. Went back to a 2.2 kernel for now.

 

[ProviaFan]

I've been using 2.4.2 for a while now with ppp 2.4.something (with the ltmodem-5.78 driver, btw, for my internal modem). It works great. You can find it (pppd) here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pppd/ .
HTH, Josh

 

[MGMorden]

Thanks guys, it's working now.