Package: module-init-tools
Version: 3.2.2-1
When I'm running kernel 2.2.20 and give the command: modprobe ppp, I
get the message:
modprobe: Can't locate module ppp
Yet ppp.o is in the right place and other modules from the same
location can be found by modprobe. Version 2.4.26 of modprobe finds
ppp.o and loads it (along with dependencies). But Version 2.4.27
can't find it.
I just tried it while running kernel 2.4.27 (same as modprobe version
by coincidence). "modprobe ppp" doesn't load ppp since there is no
ppp module in the 2.4.27 kernel. But instead it loads ppp_generic and
some other modules so that ppp will work. Thus it seems that ppp has
been made an alias for other modules, but for kernel 2.2.20 one needs
to load the real ppp.o.
modprobe.modutils can't find ppp either. I suppose that modutils
calls modprobe.modutils since it should check uname -r to find out I'm
running 2.2.20. I sometimes use kernel 2.2.20 since it loads about
3 times faster than 2.6.15 (but I hoping to improve 2.6.15 booting
speed by finding the causes of it's slowness on my PC).
David Lawyer
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