On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Rusi Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> 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... and a different question: > > Doing: > > # pon dsl-provider > > I get: > > Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. > Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such file or directory > Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running 2.4.x? > > However: > # modprobe pppoe > > pulls in pppox and ppp_generic as well. > > After that > # pon dsl-provider > > works > > 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...
Either "/etc/modprobe.d/<filename>.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the former isn't early enough. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sw3jh5rwuxi9zbnyr-0ny6cbfz3kpyzaldbbr+cu4f...@mail.gmail.com
