[Rule-list] Re: no ppp support in install kernel?

[Raymundo Baquirin]

Hi Michael,

On Thursday 09 May 2002 00:00, you wrote:
>> Ah well, I still have the option of doing a hard-drive-based install...
>Much better option. :)
As I write this the Red Hat base packages are being copied to the laptop (I 
can hear the hum of the cdrom drive on my desktop machine). Install from hard 
drive scheduled next!

>> I just read about SLIP and the slattach program in the "Linux
>> Networking Howto".  Tried slattach and it worked fine--I can ping my
>> desktop machine from the laptop. 
>Please send me details and any useful URLs with info?
>Just one more thing I've never tried, but the info might help others
>trying to use the slinky installer.

>From the "Linux Networking Howto" (http://www.linuxports.com/): 
SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) allows you to use tcp/ip over a serial 	
line, be that a phone line with a dialup modem, or a leased line of some 			
sort. Of course to use SLIP you need access to a SLIP-server in your area...
Slip uses the serial ports on your machine to carry IP datagrams. To do this 
it must take control of the serial device. Slip device names are named sl0, 
sl1 etc...

slattach ..is a very simple program, that is very easy to use, but does not 
have the sophistication of dip. It does not have the scripting ability, all 
it does is configure your serial device as a SLIP device. It assumes you have 
all the information you need and the serial line is established before you 
invoke it. slattach is ideal to use where you have a permanent connection to 
your server, such as a physical cable, or a leased line...

>> Well, slinky doesn't have slattach and won't run the slattach binary
>> that I have (same error that I was getting when trying to run pppd).  I
>> guess what's required is a binary (either slattach or pppd) compiled
>> against the install kernel.

>I just compiled the net-tools package against uClibc. You can try the
>slattach binary here:
>http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/misc/
>
>If it works, I can add it to the installer image. Please let me know.

I downloaded slattach, copied it over to the laptop and booted slinky.
Upon checking the /dev directory, didn't see a serial com device so did
    mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
Then did (after mounting, etc.)
    slattach -p cslip -s 19200 /dev/ttyS0 &
But I got an error message
    SLIP_set_disc(1): Invalid argument
That lost me...

>I can also make the pppd binary available, but it also needs 2 additional
>small libraries from uClibc. I'll see what I can do with it tonight, I'm
>running late for work.

That would be great!

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