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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > It is possible that the problem lies with pppd.  When I
> > compiled eznet for BL1 (older/smaller pppd), I had to set 
> > a special flag for that version of pppd (otherwise eznet 
> > does not work with that pppd).  Apparently there are 
> > significant differences between the two pppds.  Perhaps 
> > the 2.2 kernel does not work with the old pppd?  
> 
> http://www.bdcol.ee/linux/krnl22x.shtml
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> First note, that 2.2.x kernels will not work with pppd-2.2.0 
> anymore, because 2.2.x kernels has kernel part of pppd-2.3.3
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> http://gershwin.ens.fr/vdaniel/Doc-Locale/Outils-Gnu-Linux/Kde/kppp/kppp-2.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> For kernel versions 1.2.x, the correct version of the pppd 
> daemon is 2.1; for kernel versions 2.0.x, the correct version 
> is 2.2. or newer; for kernel versions 2.1.x and 2.2.x you 
> need pppd version 2.3.

Is this something that can be copied from bl2 to bl3 and if so, will it 
overwrite the older version?  I don't want to make bl1 unusable.


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> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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