-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there. Thanks Greg, I have since sorted out the problem and now have PPP working properly. On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/QQoZGT7f58lCbH0RAp7pAKCDFmUyhmoc/7Il/xDhstSkfCCbrACfYN85 DDxPGD+nR5pR6MMuv0f2Efo= =igd+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
