Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: There is something that I've been wondering.. Why is everyone so fascinated with modules? I acknowledge that they have their uses, but how many people really need to UNLOAD a module once it's loaded? If you need it, compile it into the kernel,

Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-08 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: We had a report that adding PPP to /etc/modules rather than letting kerneld load it made it work. I don't know why that would be, so if you can corroborate it, that would help. This isn't directed to you, Bruce.. but your message brought up a point.

Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-08 Thread edwalter
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: There is something that I've been wondering.. Why is everyone so fascinated with modules? I acknowledge that they have their uses, but how many people really need to UNLOAD a module once it's loaded? If you need it, compile it into the kernel,

Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-07 Thread Ken Gaugler
Title says most of it. I have had this problem before, and now I can't figure out how to fix it, nor can I find the previous reference in the mailing list archives. So here it is: I have been running 2.0.6 kernel for some time now with no problems. I was experimenting around with trying to

Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
We had a report that adding PPP to /etc/modules rather than letting kerneld load it made it work. I don't know why that would be, so if you can corroborate it, that would help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP