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/ /\____\// / / / /\____\/| / /
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On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Mister Linux wrote:
> In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.950724192907.4056D-100000@steroid.ecst.csuchico.edu>
> you write:
> >
> >I have an error which is displayed everytime I reboot. It didn't happen
> >until I got the new kernal and the new version of ppp:
> >
> >Linux-1.3.10
> >ppp-2.2b3
> >
> >My computer is a 486 dx4-100 if this will help to diagnose the problem,
> >though I don't really see how. So you can get any other information that
> >might be necessary I have included the output from dmesg, which BTW shows
> >the error which appears as follows:
> >
> >unregister_netdev: device 'ppp0' unlinked
> >unregister_netdev: device 'ppp1' unlinked
> >unregister_netdev: device 'ppp2' unlinked
> >unregister_netdev: device 'ppp3' unlinked
> >
>
> This is NOT an error message, but a status display and is exactly what
> should happen! The new PPP code does dynamic channel allocation and
> needs to unregister the OLD-style ppp devices to do so.
>
> Dominik
>