PPPD on busy box

[Matthew Hiles]

Ian Harrold wrote:
> I am trying to get PPPD working on an ARM based processor (actually a 
> Marvell PXA310 XScale).  I am running BusyBox v1.01 and Linux Kernel v 
> 2.6.21
>
> have compiled kernel with the following flags set:
>
> CONFIG_PPP=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_DEFLAGE=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
>
> CONFIG_PPP_MPPE=y
>
> CONFIG_PPPOE=y
>
> CONFIG_SLIP=y
>
>  
>
> And indeed as the kernel loads I see the following:
>
> PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
>
> PPP Deflate Compression module registered
>
> PPP BSD Compression module registered
>
> PPP MPPE Compression moduel registered
>
> NET: Registered protocol family 24
>
> SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256)
>
>  
>
> I have downloaded the PPP Daemon (pppd) v 2.4.4 source code from the 
> samba website:
>
> ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/ppp/
>
> ppp package cross compiles fine and is added into to the filesystem 
> image as it is compiled.  When I run "pppd", the console terminal will 
> hang outputting nothing.  I expect to see something similar to this 
> however:
>
> ~�}#�!}!}!} }4}"}&} } } } }%}&�.�O}'}"}(}"F�~
>
> which would be authentication/handshaking attempts with a modem.  If I 
> tell pppd to use Serial Port 2 "ttyS1" or any other serial port than 
> the currently connected consonole's port, the daemon immediatly unloads.
>
>  Anyone have experience/insight into what could be going wrong?
>
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