Problem with the kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 and PPP

[Paul Smith]

On 10/3/05, John Mahowald <jpmahowald at gmail.com> wrote:
> > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because
> > 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.
>
> It's not ppp.o module you're looking for, current kernel modules use
> .ko extension, and aren't named just ppp.
>
> This looks like a kernel bug, have you checked bugzilla.redhat.com?

Thanks, John. A patch by Matt Domsch has solved the problem. See

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pptpclient-devel&m=112833069223140&w=2

Paul