Re: [iPAQ] Familiar v0.3 and ppp

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:39:07PM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:
> Derek Glidden wrote:
> >
> > I've updated my iPAQ to Familiar v0.3 from v0.2 and now have the problem
> > that trying to start ppp from my workstation to the iPAQ results in this
> > failure message:
> >
> > LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> > Connection terminated.
> >
> > ppp used to work before I upgraded from v0.2 to v0.3. I had no major
> > configuration changes on the v0.2 install and deleted the old "flash
> > backup" file so as to start from a clean slate with v0.3.
> >
> > I *can* log into the iPAQ with minicom, so I know its alive and
> > responding. logging in as the 'ppp' user starts pppd on the iPAQ.
>
> ugh, my bad. apparently logging in as 'ppp' tries to start pppd but
> can't because it can't find the appropriate modules. insmod'ing the
> 'ppp_generic' and 'ppp_async' modules by hand makes pppd work properly.
> I guess I was seeing all the garbage being spit out by pppd failing to
> work properly and assuming it *was* working properly...

Logging in as root, and doing:

cat >>/etc/modules
alias char-major-108 ppp_async

Seems to have it all working for me.

Ross
Received on Wed Mar 14 16:17:35 2001