Alas, while you have deleted the answers you got, I have deleted your
original question. And since this problem description, despite its length,
leaves out a lot of important information, I can't give you very complete
advice based on it.
One very odd thing is this line:
>Jul 12 10:34:40 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyS1
Since /dev/ttyS1 is not a module (it's a device), modprobe should never be
trying to locate it. This suggests to me that you have some fundamental
configuration error that is not very well identified by the log output you
sent us. Perhaps we need to see the script that runs pppd (intact EXCEPT
that you should replace any password with Xs).
More generally, I'm not sure why linuxconf would generate a hundred or so
modprobe messages ... or any modprobe messages, for that matter ... I don't
use linuxconf myself ... but it would be more instructive to see the
messages generated during boot/init by modprobe or insmod than this batch.
Similarly, the output of "ifconfig -a" and "route -n" would tell us (and
you) more about your connectivity than the log messages.
Finally, tell us some basics: what Linux distribution and version? What
steps did you follow in compiling your kernel? Do the modules on the system
match the kernel (does /lib/modules/2.2.16/ exist? did you do a "make
modules_install" as the last step in your kernel compile process, before you
moved the new kernel into place and re-ran lilo?)?
At 11:26 AM 7/12/00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>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?
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------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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