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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I have downloaded slackware 3.5 /n4/ppp.tgz which puts both 
> > pppd-2.2 and pppd-2.3 in /usr/sbin.  Do I need to make a symlink 
> > pppd pointing to the one of these that matches the kernel I am 
> > using
> 
> Yes.  Or you can simply rename it to pppd.

I renamed pppd-2.3 to pppd.
> 
> > This relates to using the BL1 (glibc5) libraries with the BL2 
> > (2.2.16) kernel, which won't work with the older pppd that comes 
> > with BL1
> 
> The old pppd was compiled for a 2.0 kernel.
> 
> > I am trying to test whether lynx compiled statically (no library 
> > dependencies) will work with the older library.  
> 
> If it is truly static, then the older library should be irrelevant.
> The old kernel is more likely to be the problem.

Steven
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I booted with the SW71 (BL2) kernel (2.2.16) and have the matching SW71 
slhc.o and ppp.o installed.  I ran pppsetup to load the modules.

The library is glibc5 (BL1, SW3.5).

ldd pppd-2.2 or 2.3 - libc.so.5.
I presume since these came from SW35 they should be happy with libc.so.5 
from SW35 (BL1).

I typed ppp-on and again got a dialing failure.

I rebooted with the older kernel and modules, and I renamed pppd-2.2 to 
pppd, and it dialed.  

I therefore cannot test static lynx online with the BL1 library and
pppd02,3 fir BK1 and the BL2 kernel and modules, since I can't go online
with that combination.  Please let me know when you get it all working
together.

I did not install ppp.tgz, just added pppd-2.3.  Perhaps pppd-2.3 requires 
some other files to work, that were not needed by pppd-2.2?

Maybe pppd-2.3 for SW35 does not work properly with ppp.o for SW71?

Would it help if you compiled another kernel 2.2.16 which includes ppp.o?
Or compiled pppd-2.3 on a computer with glibc5 and kernel 2.2.16?

I am giving up on this for a while.  It is time consuming to add programs 
to this laptop, which has no CD-ROM drive.  Plip is no longer working for 
me and when I try to put in a floppy disk the power usually goes off.
I can download directly to it.  I have ppp.tgz uncompressed and can 
experiment with adding additional pieces of it if you tell me which ones.

I think it would be a good idea to get BL3 to dial soon.


Sindi Keesan