Hello cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:20, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the >>> install >>> CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? >>> >>> Currently, I have the 2.4.18-k6 kernel installed on my hard drive, >>> but it doesn't seem to have ppp enabled (dmesg brings up no >>> mention of ppp). I'm a little surprised, I would've thought a >>> kernel I downloaded as a .deb off debian.org would have ppp >>> enabled, but still... >>> (did I do something wrong during the install, I wonder?) >> >> Check if the ppp support is built as modules. On my system (self >> compiled kernel with ppp support as modules), the following modules >> are loaded: >> >> [ppp modules] > > No, nothing for ppp (or PPP) > >> A quick search on <http://packages.debian.org> shows that your kernel >> package has the ppp_async.o module (I didn't check for the other >> ones). >> >> Try this to find out: >> >> cat /boot/config-2.4.18-k6 | grep PPP > > Yes.... > > alti:/etc/modutils# cat /boot/config-2.4.18-1-k6 | grep PPP > [kernel seems to have ppp support] > >> On my system, these drivers are loaded automatically. There is a file >> /etc/modutils/ppp with the following lines: >> >> alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic >> alias char-major-108 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 >> >> Please check your /etc/modutils/ppp file and your /etc/modules.conf >> to make sure it also has these lines (if not, try to run >> update-modules). > > Yes: > > [modules.conf is ok] > > What does this mean? I downloaded the kernel as a .deb from > debian.org. I installed it (IIRC) with Kpackage or with dpkg. > I can't recall whether it asked me any questions about what to include > when I installed it, or not. > > As a check, I just uninstalled my older 2.4.16-k6 kernel (which I > don't normally use any more) and reinstalled it with > dpkg -i /<path>/kernel-image-2.4.16-k6_2.4.16-1_i386.deb > the only questions it asked me were whether I wanted to use Lilo > (no). It gives exactly the same results for the ppp modules as the > 2.4.18 kernel (above). The module configuration file is part of the ppp package, not the kernel image packages. > Kppp dials my ISP and makes connection as it should - just that it > isn't communicating with Kmail or browsers. What does the ppp output or log say? Does pinging ip addresses work (try ping 192.25.206.10 for www.debian.org)? > When I boot off the bf2.4 kernel on the floppy, I got no response to > lsmod | grep ppp before I tried dialling my ISP, but kppp dialled > OK and communicated with Kmail successfully and now I get : > > alti:/home/cr# lsmod | grep ppp > ppp_deflate 38944 0 (autoclean) > ppp_async 6464 0 (autoclean) > ppp_generic 18728 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp > ppp_async] > slhc 4432 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] > > > So, I'm a bit puzzled. The modules are automatically loaded when needed. That is what /etc/modules.conf is there for. Are they also loaded successfully when using the other kernel? best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
