I think what's being overlooked in all of this is that the orignal problem was that pppd was not found. pppd is the daemon. As root, issue the command: updatedb then enter : locate pppd and see what comes up.
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474
