From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 06:58:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: improve ppp not available message
X-Git-Tag: ppp-2.4.7~719
X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ab2f6e584f5a0d5a23c180644e4ce7fd1f759ae

improve ppp not available message
---

diff --git a/pppd/sys-linux.c b/pppd/sys-linux.c
index 70ba2fa..7cae7ce 100644
--- a/pppd/sys-linux.c
+++ b/pppd/sys-linux.c
@@ -1618,9 +1618,11 @@ int ppp_available(void)
 
     no_ppp_msg = 
 	"This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because\n"
-	"the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is\n"
-	"not configured for PPP.  See the README.linux file in the\n"
-	"ppp-2.3.7 distribution.\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";
 
 /*
  * Open a socket for doing the ioctl operations.