userland ppp ("No context" errorÃs

[Christian 'reezer' Sturm]

Francis Gudin <fgudin at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Those errors say:
>   "No context (use the 'link' command)"

I have the same problem.

> After digging a bit the manpage, i decided to try prefixing all those
> lines with "link deflink " and *it worked*. Now ppp doesn't scream
> anymore and is functional again.

Try to remove the space(s) in front of each line. On my box this worked too.

> I'm not doing anything fancy with it: merely use it for a PPPoE
> connection.

Could you please post your ppp.conf. Especially the line starting with set device. I always get
Warning: Bad label in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf (line 3) - missing colon

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reezer