Re: ppp not working

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Samuel Varghese wrote:
> 
> i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1.
> however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a
> message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in the
> install is the ppp module loaded? i thought that this was an integral part of
> the system and did not need to be loaded separately.
> any help would be appreciated. i am using the fv2wm X interface.

Try 'insmod ppp'.  Does that make it work?

This should, indeed, be done automatically.  /etc/init.d/modutils should
have code to do 'depmod -a' and 'modprobe', which should do all you
need.  Take a look there.  But have you rebooted since your install? 
Maybe that's all that's needed.