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Re: ppp not working



I think what's being overlooked in all of this is that the orignal
problem was that pppd was not found.  pppd is the daemon.  
As root, issue the command: updatedb
then enter :  locate pppd 
and see what comes up.

"Keith G. Murphy" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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