From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 6:59:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899DD37B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 06:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9997543F6D for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 06:59:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.180.103]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030111145930.VVIC15906.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:59:30 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0BEvlk5093397; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:57:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001001c2b982$1710a8d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Stephen D. Kingrea" , References: Subject: Re: newbie questions about pppoe and netgraph Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:59:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > attempting to run pppoe on freebsd 4.7 over cable/dsl connection. > > manual says kernel recompilation unnecessary for this release in > order to run pppoe. however, netgraph does not seem to be loading at boot > time. additionally, pppoe seems unable to get past lcp when connecting. > > how can i tell if netgraph is active after boot? if not, can netgraph > modules be loaded at boot by adding necessary lines into loader.conf? or > is recompiling kernel a preferred method? If netgraph and pppoe support are not present in your kernel (or not loaded from modules automatically), the ppp program will complain loudly. Can you post part of your ppp log file so that we can determine if the lack of pppoe is your problem or if it's something else? -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message