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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:35:22 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Dave Evans <devans@hclb.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20
Message-ID:  <20021025123522.B23521@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <200210251841.OAA09782@valiant.cnchost.com>; from bakul@bitblocks.com on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0700
References:  <20021025113137.A23521@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200210251841.OAA09782@valiant.cnchost.com>

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> Until pppd is taught to create the interface if one doesn't
> exist, this information needs to be in /usr/src/UPDATING.

pppd doesn't need to be taught to create the interface.  Rather it needed
to learn to check for ppp support in a non-stupid way.  The following
patch should do it as well as making pppd do the right thing when
support isn't compiled in, but a module is available.  It should make
things work with a GENERIC kernel.

If someone who actually uses pppd could test it, perferably in both
sceneios, I'll see about getting it commited.

-- Brooks

Index: sys-bsd.c
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RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/usr.sbin/pppd/sys-bsd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 sys-bsd.c
--- sys-bsd.c	17 Sep 2002 15:52:35 -0000	1.18
+++ sys-bsd.c	25 Oct 2002 19:30:20 -0000
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static char rcsid[] =3D "$FreeBSD: src/usr
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/param.h>
+#include <sys/module.h>
 #ifdef NetBSD1_2
 #include <util.h>
 #endif
@@ -169,28 +170,24 @@ sys_check_options()
 }
=20
 /*
- * ppp_available - check whether the system has any ppp interfaces
- * (in fact we check whether we can do an ioctl on ppp0).
+ * ppp_available - check whether the system has the ppp module loaded
+ * or compiled in. If it doesn't try loading it before giving up.
  */
 int
 ppp_available()
 {
-    int s, ok;
-    struct ifreq ifr;
-    extern char *no_ppp_msg;
+    const char *modname =3D "if_ppp";
+
+    if (modfind(modname) !=3D -1) {
+	printf("module is loaded\n");
+	return 1;
+    }
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-    if ((s =3D socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0)
-	return 1;		/* can't tell */
+    printf("trying to load ppp mode\n");
+    if (kldload(modname) !=3D -1)
+	return 1;
=20
-    strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, "ppp0", sizeof (ifr.ifr_name));
-    ok =3D ioctl(s, SIOCGIFFLAGS, (caddr_t) &ifr) >=3D 0;
-    close(s);
-
-    no_ppp_msg =3D "\
-This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  To include PPP support\n\
-in the kernel, please follow the steps detailed in the README.bsd\n\
-file in the ppp-2.2 distribution.\n";
-    return ok;
+    return 0;
 }
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