how to know which modules go with which aliases

[Josh Berdine <berdine@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>]

Hi all,

modprobe is having trouble finding some modules on my system:

$ grep modprobe /var/log/syslog         
Jul 23 14:37:21 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
Jul 23 14:37:26 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jul 23 14:37:26 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jul 23 15:43:21 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
Jul 23 15:43:27 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jul 23 15:43:27 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jul 23 15:46:59 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-1
Jul 23 15:58:55 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-1
Jul 23 16:14:48 boris modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-1

I'm wondering if there is somewhere I can find out what each of these
aliases means and which modules I should point them to.  I'm happy to
dig around myself, but I don't know where to start looking.

Cheers,  Josh