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Old 05-21-2004, 11:58 PM   #1
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Could not find Kernal


I have install Vector 4.0 5 times every which way and when it tells me to reboot it comes up with "Could not find Kernal Image". It gets the same screen as when you first start. I'm trying to run it on an old machine, 266 pros, 128M ram, 2g hdd. According to the requirements it should work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. I finally got it to boot and have the "Fluxbox" win manager. However, I can't get it to connect to the internet. When setting up "PPP" I get this: Attention: I couldn't find 'PPP' in the kernel or as a module. You'll need 'PPP'in the kernel or as a module to make a PPP connection. Now what?

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Old 05-22-2004, 11:05 PM   #2
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Got it all figured out.
 
Old 05-23-2004, 01:46 AM   #3
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Cool!
Can you post how?
I'm pretty sure , there'll be others , bumping into the same thing.
(Not me : I'm on ADSL )
 
Old 05-23-2004, 09:13 AM   #4
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I overstated saying I figured it out, I just started using GK Dial, but it won't disconnect. PPP still says "Can't find PPP in Kernel". I don't see why DamnsmallLinux and FeatherLinux connect with no problem but Vector is such a hassle.
 
Old 05-23-2004, 10:11 AM   #5
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Presumably because DammSmall and Feather have configured their default kernels differently from Vector, and possibly also because they may be using different kernels from Vector as well.

Since the error message seems pretty insistent that the problem is that PPP is not found in the kernel, the ultimate solution would seem to be to reconfigure and possibly recompile the kernel (and definitely the modules) to include it.

I don't have a modem (connect through a LAN), so I don't know what the PPP module is called, but I would suggest that you find out, and try to insmod <module_name> or modprobe <module_name> to insert it into the kernel. If it works, you can add the module to the modules loaded manually on startup, however Vector does that.

If it doesn't work, then you need to install the kernel-sources for your currently-running kernel (uname -r will tell you that) if they are not installed, and head on over to /usr/src/linux to do a make menuconfig and see what's up (is the module compiled in the current kernel configuration, etc.)

Hope this helps.
 
Old 05-24-2004, 01:32 AM   #6
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sudo ppp-go, sudo ppp-off did it. Thanks for the reply, messing with the kernel is over my head.
 
  


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