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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:55:37 +0800
From: Mike Maravillo <mike.maravillo@q-linux.com>
To: sameh nabil <see7a@yahoo.com>
Cc: discuss@linmodems.org
Subject: Re: Motorolla SM56 and pppd
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In-Reply-To: <20010814171044.35592.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com>; from see7a@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0700
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0700, sameh nabil wrote:
> Hi
> I have a Motorolla sm56 modem
> i got the driver from motorolla
> it requirws a 2.4.x kernel
> so i had to rebuild my 2.2 kernel on RedHat 7.0 to
> 2.4.4
> after the rebuild every thing goes ok
> except for pppd
> i get a pppd died unexpectedly exit code =4
> according to ppd Man page exit code =4 means that ppp
> module is NOT added to my kernel
> although i did add it my self
> all other modules seem to work all right

Check Documentation/Changes of your 2.4.4 kernel tree.  You might need
to upgrade other packages as well.  For one, kernel 2.4.x requires at
least pppd 2.4.0.

> I need a specefic detail of what i should do to add
> pppd to my kernel
> also i wish to know if any one ever really managed to
> get Motorolla sm56 to work?

I got it to work on RH 7.1 with kernel 2.4.2-2, and also with 2.4.3-13
that came from RH updates.

HTH
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