Hi Igor and all. I've been going through the messages posted while I was down in July for a few weeks. I didn't see a reply to this. In your /etc/modules.conf you need to put a line like "alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async", which will cause the ppp_async.o module to be loaded. Hth. Greg On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 03:14:39PM -0400, igueths at comcast.net wrote: > Hi all. I am attempting to get PPP to work on my girlfriend's box with > little luck. I got her Lucent Winmodem to work because I happened to find a > driver on linmodems.org that works with that modem. So far, I've gotten the > modem to dial out to the ISP, however pppd refuses to start. The modem > properly establishes a connection, however wvdial or pon fails to start > pppd. I got the following in syslog and am not sure as to what it means. > Jul 8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 > Jul 8 13:48:32 squeaks modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 > Jul 8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: > Invalid argument > Jul 8 13:48:32 squeaks pppd[229]: Exit. > > > I am not sure what module pppd is looking for. Perhaps I need to compile > something into the kernel that I neglected to? Currently running Debian > 3.0R1 with kernel 2.4.20. The only item related to PPP which is set to yes > in .config is CONFIG_PPP. The connection I am attempting to use was > configured via pppconfig, so as far as I know /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, > /etc/ppp/peers/provider (connection name) are fine. And just to make sure I > checked the PPP howto for proper syntax and everything seemed fine. Note > that I do not have Speakup currently installed on this machine because > there is no synthesizer available. Therefore, my girlfriend is reading me > the screen. Also, I have not successfully set up a PPP connection, so I am > not sure as for what to look for that characterizes a successful > connection. I am using the standard PPPd/chat pair to set up this box as > the PPP client. Does anyone know why I am getting this error and/or how to > resolve it? Thanks! > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
