[plug] pppd problems after kernel recompile

[Jason Bainbridge]

Thanks Tony. I've now got things working well enough that I can save the rest 
for a rainy day or one of those insomniac moments I so often have.

I think the modprobe errors I were getting were completely due to my own 
stupidity, the stock Debian kernel I originally installed must have had a few 
things like ppp_generic and my sound card compiled as modules so they were in 
/etc/modules to be loaded on boot and of course I wasn't compiling them as 
modules and hence the errors. 

Plus I think GuardDog expects the IPTables stuff to be built as modules and 
not part of the kernel for some reason, I'm still having problems with it 
regardless of whether I compile all the iptables stuff as modules or not but 
I'm not too worried as I'm only on a dialup, which isn't mission critical so 
I can wait until I gradually teach myself enough to be able to fix it.

Regards,
-- 
Jason Bainbridge
KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop
http://kde.org - webmaster at kde.org

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:24 pm, Tony Clark wrote:
> power:/# apt-get -t woody install modutils
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 372  not upgraded.
> Need to get 186kB of archives. After unpacking 122kB will be freed.
> Get:1 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main modutils 2.4.19-3 [186kB]
> Fetched 186kB in 0s (342kB/s)
> (Reading database ... 67629 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace modutils 2.4.15-1 (using
> .../modutils_2.4.19-3_i386.deb)
>
> I'm not sure if modutils has been upgraded in woody or not as i had a
> version from sid installed.  It did effect some things in Gentoo but I'm
> not sure with debian.
>
> > Not sure what you mean here, do you mean create a symlink linux in /boot
> > that points to my new bzImage? There is a symlink /vmlinuz that points to
> > vmlinuz-2.4.18 if that's what you mean. I guess I better go read some
> > more tutorials on this stuff. :)
>
> ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux
>
> tony