* [gentoo-user] PPP Issue
@ 2005-07-29 20:27 Jamie Dobbs
2005-07-29 20:39 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-07-30 18:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mauch
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From: Jamie Dobbs @ 2005-07-29 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
After any reboot, when I try to make a PPP connection to my workplace I
get the following error:
/usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device.
You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by
executing the following command as root:
mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
I enter the mknod command which recreates the device and I can then PPP
into wokr but after a reboot that device always disappears.
How can I stop this happening?
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2005-07-29 20:27 [gentoo-user] PPP Issue Jamie Dobbs
@ 2005-07-29 20:39 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-07-30 18:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mauch
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From: Dave Nebinger @ 2005-07-29 20:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user; +Cc: jamie.dobbs
> I enter the mknod command which recreates the device and I can then PPP
> into wokr but after a reboot that device always disappears.
> How can I stop this happening?
Are you running udev? If so, could be a number of things. First if you're
using the tar file (specified in /etc/conf.d/rc) the /dev node might be
disappearing (to fix I think you need to remake the dev node and rebuild the
tar file). Other problems here with udev is the lack of an appropriate rule
for the device creation...
Other possibilities are that if you're using kernel mods for the ppp
support, I know my devices don't get created until the module has been
loaded (at which point the devices appear). You might have some module
issues on your end.
Sorry can't be of more help...
Dave
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* [gentoo-user] Re: PPP Issue
2005-07-29 20:27 [gentoo-user] PPP Issue Jamie Dobbs
2005-07-29 20:39 ` Dave Nebinger
@ 2005-07-30 18:24 ` Michael Mauch
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From: Michael Mauch @ 2005-07-30 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> After any reboot, when I try to make a PPP connection to my workplace I
> get the following error:
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device.
> You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by
> executing the following command as root:
> mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
>
> I enter the mknod command which recreates the device and I can then PPP
> into wokr but after a reboot that device always disappears.
> How can I stop this happening?
I had the same problem after switching to udev. I don't know what the
"correct" solution is, but I stuck ppp_generic in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and ran upgrade-modules to "fix" it.
Regards...
Michael
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