Re: 2.3.43 breaks pppd! (SOLVED, possible config gotcha)

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 16:23:39 EST


On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:17:10PM -0500, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >modprobe(8)
>
> wrong! this is the whole crux of the matter. modprobe will not
> discover any dependencies between ppp_generic/ppp_async and the
> compression modules, because there are none. you have to figure out
> yourself that you need to get the compression modules loaded, since
> all pppd will do is complain that certain things can't be done,
> without giving any indication that there is a module or two missing.

Isn't this what /etc/modules.conf is for?

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