No PPP in 2.6.16 Kernel

David Hough fedora at llondel.org
Wed Jun 14 19:34:28 UTC 2006


On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:09:48 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> David Hough wrote:
>>
>> That's probably the clue I need, thanks. The offending system was 
>> upgraded from FC3 (2.6.12 kernel) to FC5 whereas the trouble-free 
>> system was a fresh FC5 install. So I guess I just need to strip out 
>> the old mppe stuff and possibly refresh some of the newer stuff to 
>> make sure the latest file versions exist.
> 
> If you were using the dkms kernel module build method as suggested on 
> the pptpclient website, "yum remove kernel_ppp_mppe" should remove the 
> kernel module and replace the original one.
> 
This has fixed the problem thanks, a quick cut-and-paste of the command 
you suggested and a reboot into the newest kernel and pptp is behaving 
once more.

Dave




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