Sebastiaan wrote:
...
> have you installed modutils-2.4.1 and the new ppp package from woody? You
> will need those if you want to run 2.4 kernels.
yes, I've got everything from unstable (modutils 2.4.2 and pppd 2.4.0)
> If you take a look at /lib/modules/2.4.1 you will notice that the
> arcitecture has changed. Temporarily you should be able to manually insmod
> the needed ppp drivers.
I noticed that it changed but can't make any sense of it. there is no
ppp module anymore. I'll try to load ppp_generic manually (as soon as I
can) but it does not make sense anyway - what should I do to fix it? I
have the same setup as Changes document in kernel tree suggests yet it
does not work...
btw why does modprobe look for ppp0? shouldn't it look for
char-major-108? which is aliased to ppp_generic.
thanks,
erik
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> > I have compiled 2.4.1 kernel with ppp (async) support but here's what
> > I get when running pon:
> >
> > Mar 8 11:13:43 azar modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> >
> > and pppd fails to connect. I can conect when using 2.2.18something so
> > ppp scripts are fine.
> >
> > here's the relevant part of /etc/modules.conf:
> >
> > alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
> > alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
> > alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
> > alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> > alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> > alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> > alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> >
> > and here's the list of ppp* modules:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
> > /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.o
> > /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o
> >
> > there's no ppp.o but there's also no ppp.c under kernel sources
> > (unlike in 2.2.x kernels), I guess ppp_generic takes place of ppp? but
> > the modules.conf quote above is same as the one supplied in kernel
> > source tree under Documentation/Changes, should I add something like
> > alias ppp ppp_generic? I thought the first alias (char-major-108) would
> > take care of that.
> >
> > any ideas? TIA
> >
> > erik
