[ale] please help with interface ppp0

[James Sumners]

Not knowing what this "linuxconf" utility is, I would say pppd isn't
installed. That, or it is an old buggy version. Something along those
lines.

On 10/10/06, Roger Hammons <egorra at attglobal.net> wrote:
> The problem:
>
> Each time i dial up my ISP this message appears on the console:
>
>         couldn't find interface ppp0: no such device
>
> (But i make contact and everything seems to work fine.)
>
> My limited resourses led me to linuxconf
> where i selected config-networking-client tasks-PPP/SLIP/PLIP.
>
> I get a pop-up that looks something like the following:
>
>   PPP/Slip/Plip configuration
> -------------------------------------
> | Logical device Configuration name |
> -------------------------------------
>   |Quit|  |Add|  |Help|
>   ------  -----  ------
>
> When i select ANY of Q/A/H linuxconf aborts with this
> message:
>
>         Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Roger Hammons
> egorra at attglobal.net


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