[plug] Kernel Compilation

[craig at postnewspapers.com.au]

> It means either:
> 	a) you didn't include PPP support
> 	b) you included ppp support as a module and haven't loaded it,
>        and you modutils don't work you your new kernel.

This problem was common when a RedHat 7.0 system (or other distro of
that era) was upgraded to 2.4 from 2.2 . Updating modutils and pppd
did'nt fix it, I also needed to add the following line to
/etc/modules.conf
	alias ppp ppp_async

Don't know if that was a problem with RedHat's modutils build or what.
Preloading ppp with 
	modprobe ppp_async
before a connect attempt also fixed it.

I no longer use RedHat so I can't check now.

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Craig Ringer
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