I wrote in a little while ago about this, and unfortunately have deleted the
responses, which amounted to telling me to recompile my kernel (2.2.16) with
module support.
While I was sure that I had done this in the first place (after all,
vfat/sound/... module support were behaving well), I did it again to be
sure.
My main module concern was with ppp support, which I decided to compile into the
kernel, i.e., not as a module. really, nothing's changed. Kppp (1.6.14), the
only ppp app that I seem to be able to run not-root, still complains about no
kernel ppp support -then does its merry wee thing all fine after that.
Ok, weird, but it works.
However, while it all kinda 'works', things are not right: here is what I see
when I tail /var/log/messages,
run an rxvt terminal
and then run and exit linuxconf _without_ changing anything:
(when I run the terminal):
Jul 12 10:19:46 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-5
(when I exit linuxconf):
Jul 12 10:24:41 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod lo:0 failed
Jul 12 10:24:41 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod lo:1 failed
Jul 12 10:24:41 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod lo:2 failed
Jul 12 10:24:41 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod lo:3 failed
[...you get the idea...]
Jul 12 10:24:46 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod lo:49 failed
Jul 12 10:24:46 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod ppp0:0 failed
Jul 12 10:24:46 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod ppp0:1 failed
Jul 12 10:24:46 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod ppp0:2 failed
[...ditto... (@ about 30 seconds of computation time)...]
Jul 12 10:24:50 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod ppp0:48 failed
Jul 12 10:24:50 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod ppp0:49 failed
I can see that both ppp0 and lo are activated at boot in my boot messages.
here is a /var/log/messages output of when I log onto the internet:
Jul 12 10:34:39 localhost pppd[2081]: pppd 2.3.11 started by dasEs, uid 500
Jul 12 10:34:39 localhost pppd[2081]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 12 10:34:39 localhost pppd[2081]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jul 12 10:34:40 localhost pppd[2081]: local IP address 209.79.140.139
Jul 12 10:34:40 localhost pppd[2081]: remote IP address 203.56.11.29
Jul 12 10:34:40 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyS1
I'd like to be able to modprobe's job a little easier, can anyone tell me what,
where, and when I should tell modprobe what it would like to know?
takcq.
d,
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