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

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

H. S. (<greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>) wrote:
> Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 15:26,typed:
>> 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.
>>> [...]
>>> 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.
> 
> $> 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?

You can omit slhc, because ppp_generic depends on it according to my
modules.dep, so it will be autoloaded when ppp_generic is loaded.

best regards
 Andreas Janssen

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