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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where to get iijppp? or kernel support for pppd?
Date: 25 Jul 1995 02:35:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3v1c5i$74t@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>,
Glenn (G. A.) Davis <gdavis@bnr.ca> wrote:
>I have no kernel support for pppd and no idea how to do rebuild the kernel.

Easy.  Look in /usr/share/FAQ and read the FreeBSD.FAQ you'll find there.
Section 6.

>selected directories if I new what source is required to re-build the kernel
>( and the procedure to do it).

You need the kernel source..

>described in postings in this newsgroup.  Yes, I've looked for /usr/sbin/ppp;
>any package on the CD which includes the string ppp in the description; and for
>ppp source directories on the CD.  No luck.

It's not on 2.0.  You really need to upgrade to 2.0.5 for that.

						Jordan