Re: PPP on FC5: kernel modules?

Laurent-jan <blobbel7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I have some problems getting PPP working on Fedora 5. I am not able to load
the kernel module somehow.

The PPPD dies with:

pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because
the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a
module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'. If that fails, check that
ppp.o exists in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net.
See README.linux file in the ppp distribution for more details.

So, loading the kernel module would be:
modprobe ppp_generic
(FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found.)

ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/ppp*
gives me:
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14416 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 8032 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 34660 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 8992 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_mppe.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 17300 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/pppoe.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 5688 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/pppox.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 12928 Mar 14
2006 /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.ko

(which should be correct)

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong, and what I should do instead?

Probably not yet.

Does "uname -r" match 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5?
Does "depmod -A" help? (shouldn't be necessary but...)
Is modprobe up to date? (depmod -V; Documentation/Changes, module-init-tools)

Laurent-jan

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