Re: [Sheflug] Odd error on modem connection.

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Richard Lowe writes:
 > * Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
 > > 
 > > Mar 24 18:44:10 harmonics pppd[21266]: Serial connection established.
 > > Mar 24 18:44:10 harmonics pppd[21266]: ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Invalid argument
 > > Mar 24 18:44:10 harmonics pppd[21266]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
 > > 
 > > Can anyone tell me what the ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Invalid argument
 > > error is likely to be caused by?
 > >
 > kernel 2.4.x needs pppd 2.4.x, I'd look at linux/Documentation/Changes to 
 > see if there's anything else you've missed as well :)
 
I had a sneaking suspicion about that one - which is why I included
the version number in my post...

Doh.
 
 > 
 > > I'm running kernel 2.4.2 and pppd version 2.3.11. I've copied the
 > > chat-ppp0 and ifcfg-ppp0 scripts from my existing firewall box.
 
Baz.
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