>From: lauzon@cs.wisc.edu (Shawn Lauzon)
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:39:31 -0500 (CDT)
>
>I need some help hooking up my computer (486) to the Internet 
>via my modem (tty01).  If I try to do pppd, it says:
>
>Sorry - PPP not available on this system
>
>Why is this?  I thought NetBSD came with PPP.  Any suggestions
>are appreciated.  I've used SunOS for years, but I've never set
>up PPP connections or much of any sys admin stuff, so please
>be somewhat direct.  Thanks very much!

You don't have any ppp interfaces built into your kernel.  Add

pseudo-device	ppp	1

to your kernel config file, update your kernel, and reboot.
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