[ale] system lacks kernel support for PPP?

[James P. Kinney III]

I bet the ppp-mppe package uninstall did a no-no and removed the ppp.o
module.

It's in the kernel rpm. Reinstall the same kernel rpm you are currently
using and it will be restored.

Try " rpm -Uvh kernel-<version>.rpm --force" to restore all of the
kernel parts.

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 14:36, John Wells wrote:
> I was attempting to get pptp-client going with mppe support.  It provides
> an rpm call ppp-mppe.  I installed it, but had some problems with
> dependencies, so I uninstalled it.  Apparently, the ppp-mppe is a modified
> pppd, because it uninstalled my pppd.
> 
> So, reinstalled the base ppp package provided with Red Hat 8.0.  Now,
> however, when I run pppd I get:
> 
> pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because
> the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
> included in the kernel configuration.  If PPP was included as a
> module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'.  If that fails, check that
> ppp.o exists in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net.
> See README.linux file in the ppp distribution for more details.
> 
> I made no modifications to the kernel, and it supported it before.  Anyone
> seen this or know what I'm missing?  I verified that /dev/ppp is there, so
> I'm not sure what else might be going on.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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