Re: [PLUG] ppp trouble

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 13:39, John Lavin wrote:
> Happy New Year all -
> 
> I'm running into trouble using kppp.  Sometimes I get all of the below 
> messages immediately, other times I get up to the Couldn't find interface 
> ppp0 and stay connected for a time (like now) before eventually receiving the 
> rest of the messages.
> 
> Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
> Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> Kernel supports ppp alright.
> Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
> kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
> KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1
> kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
> kdeinit: Exit.
> 
> I'm running KDE 2.1.1 on Mandrake 8.0 and a 2.4.3 kernel.
> 
> # ls -l /dev/ppp0
> ls: /dev/ppp0: No such file or directory

It's been so long since I did dialup, but isn't the ppp0 devices created
on-the-fly? It only appears AFTER you've made a successful connection?

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