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

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

Apparently, _Andreas Janssen_, on 05/11/04 16:14,typed:
> 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

In just included ppp_generic in /etc/modules file and it is now working 
fine. I get this in /var/log/messages:
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kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
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pppd[5105]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
pppd[5105]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.2
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Thanks a ton.
->HS