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From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: "PPP Not available on this system" ---- HELP
Date: 8 Jun 1995 15:44:38 +1200
Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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In <3quj1c$45h@imp.demon.co.uk>
wayne@office.zipmail.co.uk (Wayne Taylor) writes:

>I'm trying to get FreeBSD 2.0 setup to work with PPP, but when running 
>pppd I just get the message "PPP Not available on this system".
>
>It seems to be that there is no PPP0 interface setup but can't work out 
>how to create it.

You've got to recompile the kernel for PPP. The default kernel doesn't
have it built it, apparently.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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