modem / tty prob after a rebuild

edM · 08-08-2004, 05:30 PM

hi,

i was rebuilding my kernal, adding SATA support, unfortunately i lost the config file so i had to go through and uncheck all unnecessary drivers etc.

After the rebuild i tried to dial up using PPP and got this error:

Code:

 root@c10:# 
                 #/usr/sbin/pppd : ln file /etc/ppp/options : unrecognized option ' /dev/ttyS0

there is no /dev/modem in /dev

i checked that i had selected all PPP options in kernal config, but i must of deselected something, but going through all the kernal options again i couldnt see anything which might be the problem.

as always thankyou for your help.

Ed.

Tinkster · 08-08-2004, 05:44 PM

/dev/modem is commonly just a symlink to a serial
device ... if you don't have those either (PPP is complaining
about /dev/ttyS0 , not /dev/modem in the first place)
you probably disabled them ... how did you "lose"
your .config, btw?

Cheers,
Tink

edM · 08-08-2004, 05:58 PM

i was fiddling around with the config file (as you do) and ran mrproper, not knowing what it does until later, the only other backup was just the default settings.

so how do i enable them?

thanks

Tinkster · 08-08-2004, 06:06 PM

Uh-huh ... :}
Good practice tip: once you compiled and installed
a new kernel, put a copy of .config into /boot with it.
I usually do a cp .config /boot/config-<version>

In .config search for CONFIG_SERIAL, set it to
m or y ...

Cheers,
Tink

edM · 08-08-2004, 06:10 PM

will do, thanks mate.