Package: modutils
Version: 2.4.27.0-3
When I'm running kernel 2.2.20 and give the command: modprobe ppp, I
get the message:
modprobe: Can't locate module ppp
Also, when I try to connect to the internet with wvdial, it fails due
to failure to load the ppp module, likely part of this problem.
Yet ppp.o is in the right place and other modules from the same
location can be found and loaded by modprobe. Version 2.4.26 of
modprobe finds ppp.o and loads it OK (along with dependencies). And
wvdial works OK then. But Version 2.4.27 can't find the ppp module.
I just tried it while running kernel 2.4.27 (same as modprobe version
by coincidence). In this case "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 may have 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. Since I have both
module-init-tool and the modutils packages, the stuff from modutils is
suffixed by ".modutils". Tracing the problem shows that it's in
"insmod.modutils. If I use version 2.4.26 of that, all is OK. When I
use modprobe it calls modprobe.modutils which is linked to
insmod.modutils.
I sometimes use kernel 2.2.20 since it loads about 3 times faster
than 2.6.15 on my old PC. But I hoping to improve 2.6.15 booting
speed by finding the causes of it's slowness on my PC and filing bug
reports. The "Deli" distribution of Linux uses kernel 2.2 since it's
claimed to use less resources, etc. So I think that it's wrong that
the change in versions of modutils has resulted in ppp.o not being
loaded for kernel 2.2
I'm saying this because I filed a bug report similar to this one
against module-init-tools and it was rejected since it was claimed
that 2.2.20 is no longer supported. But lack of support shouldn't
mean introducing a bug into it, which has been done by the transition
from modutils 2.4.26 to 2.4.27.
David Lawyer
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