From 2ab2f6e584f5a0d5a23c180644e4ce7fd1f759ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 06:58:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] improve ppp not available message --- pppd/sys-linux.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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. -- 2.39.2