mppc for gentoo 2.6.23
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008After changing from Ubuntu to Gentoo I lost support for mppc, and the patch only works for kernels up to 2.6.13. I finally found that devil-linux has created a patch for the 2.6.23 kernel that replaces the native mppe patch.
$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ wget http://devil-linux.linjection.org/devel/sources/1.3/linux-2.6.23-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch.bz2
$ bunzip2 linux-2.6.23-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch.bz2
$ patch -p1 < linux-2.6.23-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch
$ make menuconfig
Go to Device Drivers –> Network Deevice support:
Check the PPP options, you will see the option:
Microsoft PPP compression/encryption (MPPC/MPPE)
Then compile/install as usual, and you will have the module: ppp_mppe_mppc available, replacing the ppp_mppe.
Unfortunatly NetworkManager refuses to compile right now.
Tags: gentoo, linux, mppc
