[gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem

[gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem

[Mike Markowski]

I have a ~x86 box that is dial up only and uses ppp.  Last weekend an 
'emerge -uD world' seemed to complete without issue but now I can't make 
a ppp connection as seen by the error attached below.  I admit to not 
knowing my way around udev yet & what I've read isn't helping with this. 
  I'm guessing I need to recreate something somehow.  Penetrating 
insight...  Does anyone see what it is I'm missing that causes the

       udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for
       '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed

error below?  There's no ppp0 directory under /sys/class/net/ but I 
don't know what creates it.

Thanks very much,
Mike

=== snipped from /var/log/messages ===

Jan 27 15:40:03 home PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Jan 27 15:40:03 home pppd[9349]: pppd 2.4.4 started by mm, uid 0
Jan 27 15:40:04 home chat[9360]: abort on (BUSY)
Jan 27 15:40:04 home chat[9360]: abort on (NO CARRIER)

[...typical modem connect msgs...]

Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Serial connection established.
Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan 27 15:40:42 home udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for 
'/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed
Jan 27 15:40:42 home udev-net.sh: /etc/init.d/net.ppp0: does not exist 
or is not executable
Jan 27 15:40:48 home pppd[9349]: Modem hangup
Jan 27 15:40:48 home pppd[9349]: Connection terminated.
Jan 27 15:40:48 home udev-net.sh: /etc/init.d/net.ppp0: does not exist 
or is not executable
Jan 27 15:40:49 home pppd[9349]: Exit.
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem

[maxim wexler]

> insight...  Does anyone see what it is I'm missing
> that causes the
> 
>        udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting
> for
>        '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed
> 
> error below?  There's no ppp0 directory under
> /sys/class/net/ but I 
> don't know what creates it.

PPP can be a pain. There's little support or even
interest. I went through a rough patch last summer. 

>From my notes I see I had to re-add net.ppp0 to the
default runlevel as well as re-edit
autoload.d/modules. Dialup works but I still get ppp0
doe not exist when the computer boots.

FWIW here's my /sys/class/net

heathen@localhost ~ $ ls -l /sys/class/net/ppp0
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 addr_len
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 16:29 address
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 broadcast
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 carrier
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 features
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 flags
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 ifindex
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 iflink
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 mtu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 Jan 28 16:29 statistics
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 tx_queue_len
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 type
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 uevent
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 weight

There's no "driver" there either. The time is strange
too cause I booted and dialed out mebbe half an hour
before that. So I can't say what process wrote what
either.

I also recall not putting anything in /etc/conf.d/net
except a reference to an ethernet card I use to
connect to another pc.

HTH

Maxim


 
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