+ int osmaj, osmin, ospatch;
+
+ no_ppp_msg =
+ "This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because\n"
+ "the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not\n"
+ "included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a\n"
+ "module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'. If that fails, check that\n"
+ "ppp.o exists in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net.\n"
+ "See README.linux file in the ppp distribution for more details.\n";
+
+ /* get the kernel version now, since we are called before sys_init */
+ uname(&utsname);
+ osmaj = osmin = ospatch = 0;
+ sscanf(utsname.release, "%d.%d.%d", &osmaj, &osmin, &ospatch);
+ kernel_version = KVERSION(osmaj, osmin, ospatch);
+
+ if (kernel_version >= KVERSION(2,3,13)) {
+ fd = open("/dev/ppp", O_RDWR);
+ if (fd < 0 && errno == ENOENT) {
+ /* try making it and see if that helps. */
+ if (mknod("/dev/ppp", S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
+ makedev(108, 0)) >= 0) {
+ fd = open("/dev/ppp", O_RDWR);
+ if (fd >= 0)
+ info("Created /dev/ppp device node");
+ else
+ unlink("/dev/ppp"); /* didn't work, undo the mknod */
+ } else if (errno == EEXIST) {
+ fd = open("/dev/ppp", O_RDWR);
+ }
+ }
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ new_style_driver = 1;
+
+ /* XXX should get from driver */
+ driver_version = 2;
+ driver_modification = 4;
+ driver_patch = 0;
+ close(fd);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ }
+