Re: Problems Connecting

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:

> PPP daemon has died  (exit code=19)

That's never a good sign, tut tut tut, etc. ;))

> 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.
> Error: MD4Update MD already done.
> Error: MD4Update called with illegal count value %d.
> 
> I've done /sbin/modprobe -v ppp  and it doesn't make any difference.  
> ppp.o does exist in /lib/modules.  I had a chat to Paul Sims about 
> this last night but all he could say was that it might be something 
> to do with PAP.

You may want to have a look at the error messages pppd is producing.
Alter syslog.conf to include:
daemon.*,kern.*		/home/richard/bloodyppp
(or whatever your home directory is!). bloodyppp will then contain the
debug output from ppp, which may have extra clues.

I would imagine there'll be an error message about line discipline or
something in there... have a look in the logs (as set out above) for
anything from the kernel too (whether PPP registers the line discipline,
etc)

Cheers,

Alex.

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