I hate to ask, yet I must....

[KelsoIII]

Hi, I am a newbie. I bet nobody has ever heard that line before... At any rate, my problem is as follows:

1. I am running Mandrake 7.2 with 2.4.0 kernel on an Intel processor.

My problem, or rather two problems, is something that I have been dealing with for 7 days. I have read all the NHFs that I could get my hands on, but none seemed to fix my problem.

The first problem should be a simple fix. This problem is that when I am booting linux, I does the checklist and then lists ADSL: and waits for around 35 seconds before continuing with the boot.

The problem is that I DO NOT have DSL and therefore have no need to try to connect to ADSL. I tried modifying my linuxconf to where it wouldn't boot this, but that didn't work. I then removed the PPPEO module and that didn't work.

What I am asking for is helping stopping the boot check for ADSL so my boot up time will be cut by 35 seconds (yea, I'm that petty).

Another thing that I tried, and something that was yet again unsuccessful, is that I re-built/re-compiled my kernel and set my old 2.4.0 to 2.4.0.old. That didn't work.

The second problem is with connecting to the Internet using KPPP 2.0.1. The problem that I am having is that I keep getting an error message right when it boots that PPP is not configured or installed for the Kernel.

I ran modprobe -v ppp and I received a message that the module did not exist.

I then updated PPP to 2.3.9 but that didn't work.

The modem is NOT a winmodem. The modem dials, the problem is that it cannot find PPP. Any help?

Like I said, I searched many sites, including http://mandrakeusers.org, and this site, but yet found nothing to help me. I have downloaded many many tutorials, so I do not jump the gun and ask for help; but now I must.

Any help is much appreciated, and very much sorry for the long post, but I felt that the most information given would really help those who might try to help me!

Also, there probbaly is a HOWTO out there to fix these problems. If anyone has a link, that would be appreciated as well. At this point, I'll take anything! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Thanks in advance,
Kelso III

[pbharris]

hello,
to stop the asdl from starting up go to /etc/rc.d/rc.X (where X is the runlevel, under redhat 3 it text login, 5 is graphical login) and remove the link to asdl (or dhcp. i am sure there are better ways but this ussally works for me. removing the pppoe module will not help...
anyway, do you have a ppp module?

pbharris_359@yahoo.com

[This message has been edited by pbharris (edited 10 January 2001).]

[configure]

Originally posted by KelsoIII:
I ran modprobe -v ppp and I received a message that the module did not exist.

Did you compile a ppp module when you build a kernel? I assume that the ppp that you downloaded is just the dialer or something.. do make xconfig and see if you have ppp compiled in to the kernel or have it enable as module or didn't compile at all..

Goodluck http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif



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..and Bill Gate said, "Just a few billion bugs, aint that nice?"

[KelsoIII]

pbharris - Thanks much! That fixed my ADSL problem with no problems at all! Much appreciated.

configure - I ran make xconfig and KConfigure or something like that came up. I went to network devices and then checked all the PPP (except PPP Ethernet) as Y and then saved and exited and then ran make dep.

It didn't work.

I then repeated everything with the execption that I changed Y to M on all, then ran make dep.

Still nothing.

Maybe I just have no clue what I'm doing, but I just cannot make this thing work!

In both cases I rean modprobe ppp and it said module not found.

I then ran KPPP and tried to connect, it would almost connect, but then exit with Error 4. I opened the Debug window and it said that the kernel did not have the module, or was not compiled and listed in the kernel, even though I checked the boxes in Xconfig and ran make dep.

Thanks much to both of ya. If anyone else has any ideas for making PPP, or at least getting the kernel to pick up the module, I would appreciate it!

Kelso

[ovf]

Hi,

V 2.4 of the kernel requires a newer version of pppd than what was used in 2.2. Have you checked www.kernelnotes.org (http://www.kernelnotes.org) for networking requirements? Here's a excerpt from a document I found there.

PPP
===

Due to changes in the PPP driver and routing code, those of you
using PPP networking will need to upgrade your pppd to at least
version 2.3.9. See ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ for newest
versions.

You must make sure that the special device file /dev/ppp exists.
It can be made by executing this command as root:

mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0

If you have built ppp support as modules, you should put the lines
below in your /etc/modules.conf file. I assume you want asynchronous
ppp; replace ppp_async by ppp_synctty if you want synchronous ppp.

alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async

[KelsoIII]

I am running 2.3.9 and I did everything listed there. Thanks man but I've tried those thing already, I don't like to jump the gun before looking on my own.