ppp not working

[Samuel Varghese]

i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1.
however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a
message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in the
install is the ppp module loaded? i thought that this was an integral part of
the system and did not need to be loaded separately.
any help would be appreciated. i am using the fv2wm X interface.
sam