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crutch52

Member

Registered: 2008-03-16

Posts: 2

Using ppp to connect via a wireless modem

Hi, I'm new to arch and am currently trying to connect to the bigpond network in australia with a sierra aircard 880U (This is a Next G service). I think I've got several problems to overcome but I'll start with the first.

When I first try to start up the ppp daemon I get the following message

/usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device.
You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by
executing the following command as root:
             mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0

Could someone please explain why this is neccesary (ie why this device does not already exist) and if creating the device like this could be causing me problems further along

Thanks

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: Using ppp to connect via a wireless modem

Before starting ppp, modprobe ppp_generic - that will create the device, so mknod will not be necessary.