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From: mclay@ariel.ae.utexas.edu (Robert McLay)
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Subject: Re: Summary: PPP and/or SL/IP between SparcStations via v.42bis modems
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Date: 4 Jan 91 00:41:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: aaron@UX.ACS.UMN.EDU's message of 1 Jan 91 19:03:58 GMT

In article <9101011904.AA20885@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> aaron@UX.ACS.UMN.EDU writes:

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   From: aaron@UX.ACS.UMN.EDU
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   Well, I tried (on a Sun3/160 running SunOS 4.1) both the
   omnigate.clarkson.edu:pub/sun/ppp.tar.Z and the
   tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/ppp/* (with the patches applied)
   but I consistently got

           ppp: ioctl(I_PUSH, ppp_async): Invalid argument

   (then quited to system prompt) for nearly all invocations of ppp.

   I tripple-checked that the kernel has been modified as directed,
   and the mod seemed successful (at least ppp0 thru ppp5 exist if
   I pre-attach them in the config file).  I also changed the
   _sys_types_h to __sys_types_h in <pixrect/pr_impl_util.h> as
   Greg suggested. No luck and same error.

   Any kind souls out there willing to give me some hints?

   Thanks and cheers for the happy new year.
   /aaron.cheung
   aaron@ux.acs.umn.edu


I know the solution to this problem.   The problem is that the
instruction fail to tell you that you need:

#include "ppp.h"

in /usr/sys/sun/str_conf.c

R. McLay
mclay@wilbur.ae.utexas.edu