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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pppd says - "Sorry - PPP Not available on this machine" - why? Date: 20 Jan 1995 04:31:54 GMT Organization: The Trystero System Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3fnebq$nms@sundog.tiac.net> References: <dva.81.0088E44B@syncro.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com In article <dva.81.0088E44B@syncro.com>, Syncro Development Corp. <dva@syncro.com> wrote: >I need to get ppp up to test some client software in my lab. It seems that >ppp looks for ppp0 device to come up. How can I build this interface? I >have built BSD kernels many times (but not for some years), but I can't find >the config files which describe the kernel devices - is this where ppp0 (or >pppx) is defined, or is there a simpler way to create this interface? You'll see all the interfaces possible for the system in: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT >Am I missing something obvious? No, you just didn't locate the right place in the kernel sources and do a 'grep ppp *' :) >I notice that others are having trouble using PPP - it must not be too bad to >get it up! It's not so hard, you'll end up having to add this line to your kernel configuration: pseudo-device ppp 2 To give you a maximum of two interfaces. 'config' Then go to the new compile directory (/usr/src/sys/compile/$CONFIGNAME) and do a make depend, a make, then move the built kernel to the root directory. -- -- Richard Nickle http://www.trystero.com/rick.html