[plug] pppd problems after kernel recompile

[Jason Bainbridge]

I was having a bit of a look through /var/log/messages and saw that pon 
attempts were giving messages to say what the DNS servers were and kppp 
wasn't so I manaully added the DNS servers to kppp's config and DNS now 
resolves.

So the real question is why do I now need to specify what the DNS servers are 
after a kernel recompile?

Regards,
Jason

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 02:37 pm, Jason Bainbridge wrote:
> I'm running Debian Woody and am trying to recompile a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel
> that has been patched to include the Linux Porgress Patch, which works
> great and I get a nice graphical Debian themed boot, that gets me straight
> to kdm without a sweat.
>
> But problems arise when using kppp (although I think pppd is the problem),
> using kppp once connected I can't resolve any domain names. I slapped my
> forehead a few times as I did silly mistakes when choosing what to compile
> in the kernel but I believe I have all the applicable ppp related stuff
> enabled now and pon/poff actually work (thankfully, which allows me to go
> searching for help).
>
> I was previously using the Vanilla 2.4.18 kernel without any problems, I
> did have a bit of an experiement with enabling/disabling modules and now if
> I enable modules I get errors with modprobe not able to find the modules.
> Could it be related to something to do with the modules loading?
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie with kernel recompiling so I better check I'm ot
> mising anything with my steps:
>
> make menuconfig
> make bzImage
> make install
>
> Then if I enabled module support (I haven't this time):
>
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
> Then reboot. If I haven't enabled modules everything looks sweet with the
> kernel messages but if I do enable modules I get the modprobe errors.
>
> Can anyone shine any light on this? I'm also having problems with iptables
> but I've disabled all the rules for now (I use GuardDog so I'm not quite up
> on all the right lingo) until I can fix the pppd problem.
>
> Anyhelp would be much appreciated.:)
>
> Cheers
> Jason

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