On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, again, modutils:
> 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.
You can read mails concerned in the archive at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
> 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.
As i see it there is nothing wierd, you have compiled PPP into the kernel
so modprobe does not come into it.
What is happening is you have entries in /etc/conf.modules concerning PPP
slip and serial, as soon as modprobe is called it will check that file and
try to load ppp.o and its partners, which of course it cant do because PPP
support is in the kernel, hence modprobe will fill your screen with error
messages of the type below.
>
> [...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.
>
> takcq.
> d,
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Regards Richard
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