[ale] pppd works in 2.0.34 but not 2.1.131

[Nick Lucent]

I think you need pppd 2.3.5 for 2.1.x

pppd: unrecognized option '-v'
pppd version 2.3 patch level 5


On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> OK - I've got the dialup working find and I can connect manually or
> automatically. I'm running pppd 2.3.3 and it works find with my 2.0.34
> kernel. However, with the 2.1.131 kernel I get the following errors:
> 
> Dec 22 14:51:55 localhost pppd[1038]: Serial connection established.
> Dec 22 14:51:56 localhost pppd[1038]: Using interface ppp0
> Dec 22 14:51:56 localhost pppd[1038]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> Dec 22 14:51:56 localhost pppd[1038]: ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route:
> Network is down(100)
> Dec 22 14:52:00 localhost pppd[1038]: Modem hangup
> Dec 22 14:52:00 localhost pppd[1038]: Connection terminated.
> Dec 22 14:52:02 localhost pppd[1038]: Exit.
> 
> Now I've seen this error with my NT setup but when I turn off several
> compression options it goes away and everything's cool. Unfortunately,
> I've tried turning off every option possible with pppd to no avail. Does
> anyone know what this error about the device route is? Besides the
> kernel build, everything else is exactly the same. I can happily
> reproduce success/failure by reselecting which kernel to boot with under
> lilo. My guess is that there's some network option under my 2.1.131 that
> I'm not aware of but I don't know enough to tell who's complaining.
> 
>     Thanx & later,
> 
>         Ben Scherrey
> 
>