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Newer page: version 22 Last edited on Monday, December 8, 2003 8:29:00 pm by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 19 Last edited on Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:04:49 pm by OliverElphick Revert
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 And recompile your kernel. 
 ''Note - at least one person had trouble with pppoa not working which was apparently solved by compiling atm and ppp over atm support into the kernel instead of as modules ''. - The problem with using modules for pppoa is that if you use too many you get a large dependency tree, this is the problem mentioed above. It is entirely possible to run pppoa (and other ppp related code) as modules provided that you are aware of the dependencies and ensure that the modules are loaded in the correct order.%%% 
 ''modprobe should surely handle this itself, as it understands module dependencies. Can you elaborate on the correct module load order? --DanielLawson''%%% 
-''I've not yet seen modprobe do it correctly (i've never spent the time trying), i am not sure what the correct order is and it is dependent on what parts you have as modules and what parts are built in, specifically I think that pppoa requires pppoe to add some hooks but as they are not strictly dependent on each other the information that modprobe requires is not present. --MattBrown'' 
+''I've not yet seen modprobe do it correctly (i've never spent the time trying), i am not sure what the correct order is and it is dependent on what parts you have as modules and what parts are built in, specifically I think that pppoa requires pppoe to add some hooks but as they are not strictly dependent on each other the information that modprobe requires is not present. --MattBrown''%%%  
+''There are problems with Kernel Oops when you try doing all this with Kernel version 2.4.22 - this is supposed to be fixed in the 'pre' patches for 2.4.23, but 2.4.21 works fine. --WarrenBoyd''%%%  
+''There are problems with Kernel Errors leading to stalled pppd with latest 2.4.X and 2.6.0 when using ipv6 on ppp with ipv6 ipsec enabled. Deactivate ipv6 privacy extensions in your kernel for pppd to reconnect correctly. dmesg error is unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1. --!TheMadHatter '' 
  
 !! Precompiled .deb 
 If you are impatient and just want to get PPPoA up and running on your system without compiling from source the following debs may work for you. Grab whichever one is appropriate for your version of debian. If you dont run debian woody or sarge, you have to compile from source.