Re: ppp not working
after issuing the updatedb command, a locate pppd command yields the following:
/usr/doc/isdnutils/examples/default/ipppd.DEVICE.gz
/usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd
/usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/notes.ipppd.gz
usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/readme
usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/readme.linux.ORIG.gz
usr/doc/isdnutils/ipppd/readme.RADIUS.gz
/usr/man/man8/ipppd.8.gz
/usr/man/man8/pppd.8.gz
/usr/sbin/ipppd
/usr/sbin/pppd.ppp.pam
/usr/sbin/pppd
sam
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, David Natkins wrote:
> 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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