MONKEY LINUX
current version 06 @(õ õ)@
released 9/5/1997 (Y) [ PPP TUTORIAL ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ Home ] [ Description ] [ Programs ] [ System Requirements ]
[ Download ] [ Installation ] [ Tutorials ] [ Links ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This tutorial is far from finished. The only topic covered here is
installing the pppd daemon. Sometime in the future there will be another
separate tutorial on configuring ppp with chat to get an internet
connection to an ISP.
Preliminary rants and ravings. Installing the point-to-point
protocol daemon (pppd) has been the source of a lot of personal misery
and triumphs in learning. I probably would have never compiled the
kernel if it wasn't for me trying to install pppd. Compiling the kernel
is a good thing...the bad thing is all the frustration that results in
waiting for the darn thing to compile. Then hours later you get some
error and you have to start all over or some error arises with building
pppd and it doesn't install. After all that, I found out that it wasn't
even necessary to compile the kernel to install PPP. Although this
tutorial isn't complete, hopefully it will prevent you from losing as
much hair as I did when trying to install pppd.
First thing first, you must have installed the man.tgz, gccall.tgz,
and kernel2030.tgz (review software packages tutorial). Next, you'll
have to download a version of PPP from samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/ppp/old/PPP.
I'm using PPP version 2.3.5 because it's the last version to mention, in
the README.linux file, that it was tested in Linux kernel 2.0.30. Unpack
the ppp-2.3.5.tar.gz file by placing it in the /install directory, just
like you would do to a ready-to-installed package. After PPP is unpacked
read the README.linux file.
cd /ppp-2.3.5 CHANGE TO /ppp-2.3.5 DIRECTORY
cat README.linux | more OPEN README.linux FILE
PPP works in two levels, one for users (pppd) and one for the kernel
(modules). For the two levels to jive, PPP support must be compiled into
the kernel and the pppd daemon must be installed. Fortunately for us PPP
was compiled as a module, so we don't need to recompile the kernel.
Unfortunately, the pppd daemon was not installed. Here's how to install
the pppd daemon:
cd /lib/modules/2.0.30/net TAKE A LOOK AT THE ppp.o, shlc.o, AND
ls -a bsd_comp.o MODULES FOR YOURSELF
cd /usr/bin CHANGE TO /usr/bin DIRECTORY
ln -s grep egrep LINK grep TO egrep
cd /ppp-2.3.5 CHANGE TO /ppp-2.3.5 DIRECTORY
./configure BUILD LINKS TO MAKEFILES
make kernel UPDATE PPP RELATED KERNEL SOURCES
make BUILD PPP PROGRAMS
make install INSTALL pppd IN /usr/sbin AND SCRIPTS
IN /etc/ppp
The astute will notice that we didn't configure the kernel as
instructed in the /ppp-2.3.5/README.linux file. PPP is included as a
module in the base install of Monkey, so we needed only to install pppd.
However, we did update the PPP related portion of the kernel source code
for when we do eventually get around to compiling the kernel. Anyhow,
now we have the pppd daemon installed in the /usr/sbin directory. This
is where the tutorial ends because I don't know how to use pppd or
modify it's configuration files.
[ top ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Send webmaster an email. [ Disclaimer ] [ Legal ] [ Updates ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 August Chaco