Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > >> Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the >> former isn't early enough. > > You are mixing two things up here: > > /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for specifying modu

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:50:01 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > > Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the > > former isn't early enough. > You are mixing two things up here: > /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for sp

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the > former isn't early enough. You are mixing two things up here: /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf are for specifying module parameters. If you want to load modules during boot, you have

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > > Any ideas? > This is a s

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody: > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > > Any ideas? This is a sysvinit specific problem [1]. Spefically, udev no longer creates dead device

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 3:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:04:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > [...] > > > > tl;dr: > > > http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tldr > > > "too long; didn't re

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:04:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > [...] > > > > tl;dr: > > http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tldr > > > "too long; didn't read"? ... um ... what was? > > My own post 'above' is what the 'tl;dr' re

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 1:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 12:13:43AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > > So now the question

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >> So now the question is: >> >> What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' >> at boot/ifup time? >> >> Evidently something has changed that has made that st

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >> After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) >> auto starting of ppp has stopped working. >> >> So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > > Some progress...

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 12:13:43AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > So now the question is: > > > What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' > >

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > So now the question is: > > What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' > > at boot/ifup time? > > Evidently something has changed that has ma

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > So now the question is: > > What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' > at boot/ifup time? > > Evidently something has changed that has made that stop happening... Put it in /etc/modules. I hope that is still

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-07-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) > auto starting of ppp has stopped working. > > > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. Some progress... and a different question: Doing: # pon dsl-provider I g