Subject: Re: SL/PPP pseudo devices missing from 3.0/i386
To: Lee Terry <inkfeed@yahoo.com>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/18/2006 11:33:51
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:58:09PM -0800, Lee Terry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to make a SLIP connection between two
> NetBSD/i386 machines. One of them has 2.0.2 and
> everything works perfect. ifconfig -a shows me the slX
> and pppX devices and i can do a slattach.
> 
> The problem is on the other 3.0 box, where ifconfig -a
> just shows me lo0. I have tried this with the
> GENERIC_INSTALL, GENERIC and GENERIC_LAPTOP kernels on
> three different machines. None of them see the slX
> devices. I have also checked the config files from the
> kernel source, and the serial line pseudo device seems
> to be enabled. I have also recompiled the kernel to no
> avail. Are there any magic options, that i do not know
> about, which have to be enabled in 3.0 for the SLIP to
> work?

ifconfig sl0 create

Bye	Pavel