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From: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pppd ioctl error - HELP
Date: 14 May 94 13:46:48
Organization: RenderMorphics Ltd.
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In-reply-to: erich@teal.csn.org's message of Sat, 14 May 1994 03:27:39 GMT

In article <CprwA4.G3u@csn.org> erich@teal.csn.org (Eric Hilfer) writes:
> I have a problem with pppd on FreeBSD 1.0.  I can get it to connect
> with a remote system, and then I get the message:
> 
> ioctl(TIOCSETD) Operation note supported by device
> 
> and pppd exits.
> 
> Do any of you have any ideas about this?  Do I need to go to version
> 1.1?

Sounds like you haven't added ppp support to your kernel.  You need to
add a line like:

	pseudo-device	ppp	2

to your kernel configuration.  I have had pppd working on both
FreeBSD-1.0.2 and FreeBSD-1.1 so you shouldn't need to upgrade.  I did
have problems with using a 16550a based serial port for pppd under
FreeBSD-1.0.2 which went away with 1.1.

> 
> Thanks for your help-
> 
> 
> -Eric
> erich@csn.org
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