Re: ppp0 fails to start at boot, only when pppoeconf is ran

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 15:26,typed:
> Hello
>
> H. S. (<greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>) wrote:
>
>
> > When I reboot Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.7, ppp0 fails with this
> > message: pppd[4989]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
> > pppd[4989]: Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running
> > 2.4.x? pppd[4989]: Exit.
> >
> > After booting up, starting it also fails with the same message. I have
> > to reconfigure ppp0 with
> > #> pppoeconf
> >
> > and then ppp0 starts and stops properly without any problems (with
> > 'pon dsl-provider' and 'poff -a' commands respectively). What could be
> > wrong?
> >
> > $> dpkg -l pppoe* hal udev | grep '^ii'
> > ii  pppoe          3.5-4          PPP over Ethernet driver
> > ii  pppoeconf      1.0.11         configures PPPoE/ADSL connections
> > ii  hal            0.2.98-6       Hardware Abstraction Layer
> > ii  udev           0.040-1        /dev/ management daemon
>
>       ^^^^
>
> udev is your problem. With udev activated, modules can not be autoloaded
> on access like with devfs or the old-style /dev system. You need to add
> some drivers to /etc/modules, including ppp_generic, and probably pppoe
> support. Use lsmod after running pppoeconf to look for modules you
> need.
>
> best regards
>  Andreas Janssen

$> lsmod | grep ppp
pppoe                  14432  2
pppox                   3592  1 pppoe
ppp_generic            30068  6 pppoe,pppox
slhc                    7808  1 ppp_generic

So I put in /etc/modules the following?
slhc
ppp_generic
pppox
pppoe

Correct?

->HS