Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:47:21 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Random PPP Dropouts |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > This was driving me nuts. It appeared with pre1, and I reversed just > > about the entire patch piece by piece until just about the only thing > > left was drivers and the makefile version changes. You guessed it.. > > the makefile changes. I haven't figured out why yet, but I now have a > > pre1 with everything except that, and the annoying route and demand dial > > problems are gone. 'Course it has an identity crisis, (it thinks it's > > 2.1.132) but it works. > > As suggested I have renamed the pre4 kernel into 2.1.136, and the problem > disappeared! > > The bug seems to be in ipppd/sys-linux.c. Decode_version() stumbles > over the '-pre4'. Attached is is a suggested workaround for > ipppd 3.0beta2. But probably it is more easy to remove the definition > of 'EXTRAVERSION' in the top level Makefile, delete > include/linux/version.h and rebuild the kernel. I guess EXTRAVESRION > will disappear with the final 2.2.0 kernel anyway.
Yeah, figured out why a little later. My forehead is a little tender from banging it on the desk afterward :)
-Mike
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