Samuel Varghese wrote: > > 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.
Try 'insmod ppp'. Does that make it work? This should, indeed, be done automatically. /etc/init.d/modutils should have code to do 'depmod -a' and 'modprobe', which should do all you need. Take a look there. But have you rebooted since your install? Maybe that's all that's needed.
