Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote:
>>
>> After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie)
>> auto starting of ppp has stopped working.
>>
>> So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf.
>
> Some progress... and a different question:
>
> Doing:
>
> # pon dsl-provider
>
> I get:
>
> Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
> Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such file or directory
> Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running 2.4.x?
>
> However:
> # modprobe pppoe
>
> pulls in pppox and ppp_generic as well.
>
> After that
> # pon dsl-provider
>
> works
>
> So now the question is:
>
> What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe'
> at boot/ifup time?
>
> Evidently something has changed that has made that stop happening...
Either "/etc/modprobe.d/<filename>.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the
former isn't early enough.
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