Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo test

[Philippe Namias <pn@novadeck.net>]

Hi,

I found why ppp wasn't working. It wad due to the fact that /dev/ppp was not 
created.

So i do mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 and then it work. It was just an error from 
me. 


So my gentoo workstation is now up and running and it's really a fine distro.


Thanks 




On Friday 02 March 2001 15:28, you wrote:
> Philippe Namias wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yesterday i installed Gentoo Linux on my home workstation.
> > So i notice few bug :
> >
> > First GRUB didn't work on my hardware i have a MSI 694 Pro D motherboard
> > with two DMA channel and two UDMA channle on a in board promise UDMA 100.
> >
> > So GRUB is unbale to find my disk on the promise UDMA 100 but find it on
> > the normal DMA channel. (I think this is due to BIOS as GRUB try to find
> > disk info from the BIOS and the Promise UDMA 100 Bios is apart from the
> > computer BIOS.)
> >
> > Then i run Gentoo with the sotck kernel provided and try at the command
> > line : /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart i got error message (line 26 and 50)
> > i didn't look at the script but the initialisation of network pass.
> >
> > Next trouble i have is one that really push my head on a wall :
> >
> > So i boot Gentoo with the stock kernel provided , then i do a pkmerge of
> > linux-source-...tbz2 and pppd-...-.tbz2, i load the modules for my
> > network card and for ppp as i use ppp for connecting to the internet.
> > Then i got a wierd behaviour from pppd telling that ppp generic is not
> > loaded but when i do lsmod i got it.
> >
> > So i decided to recompile the kernel , i selected all that feet my needs
> > and reboot. The new kernel boot without problem but PPP is still not
> > loaded but i choose it to be load directly in kernel (not a modules),
> > this as never worked all the other options worked but PPP never passe.
> >
> > So i reinstall gentoo and recompile my kernel in the chroot mode.
> > So all goes well , i reboot and now hourra i see PPP generic ...
> > The i do a pkmerge of ppp-...-.tbz2 run pppd and he tell me that PPP is
> > not present in my kernel?
> >
> > So i see two possibillity to this bug or i do something bad but ireally
> > don't know what or the ppp stuff in this kernel is broken or the
> > ppp-...-.tbz2 is broken
> >
> > Any one have an idea ?
>
> Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documenattion/Changes.
> There are a few aliases in modules.conf required in order to get pppd
> working.
> Remember to copy modules.conf to /etc/modules/[kernelversion] because
> this file gets
> copied to /etc/modules.conf on boot.
> This behaviour will change in the next release.
>
> achim~
>
> > PS : i also found that my memory was bad during installing gentoo i
> > changed it on now my workstation work without rebooting for no reasons :)
> >
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