From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <376D4EDC.4983826B@americasm01.nt.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:28:12 -0400 From: "Jerry Quinn" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: ppp compression module aliases? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I have a question that I'm not sure is best directed to kernel people or user-space people as it crosses the line. After a bunch of time trying to figure out why the ppp compression modules weren't getting loaded automatically, I traced it the fact that the appropriate aliases are not present in /etc/conf.modules. In particular, the following aliases are required: ppp-compress-21 = bsd-compress ppp-compress-24 = ppp-deflate ppp-compress-26 = ppp-deflate I vaguely remember seeing this advice once in the past which I promptly forgot. So now I'd like to save others the headache and make sure this get set up right. The current situation is as follows: * modprobe 2.1.121 (which is apparently still the current version for R5 as of may 23 - I haven't reupdated) doesn't know these aliases * The PPP HOWTO and FAQ don't mention these aliases * The NET3 HOWTO doesn't mention these aliases * The R4 and R5 installation don't seem to create these aliases ( If I'm wrong about this and my install is broken, please let me know :-) I figured this out by browsing the kernel sources ( not a bad activity, but this info should also be elsewhere :-). So I guess what I'm asking is if this should be in the kernel documentation somewhere, some other documentation, or somewhere else. Or all of the above. Or am I just misconfigured? Thanks, -- Jerry Quinn Tel: (514) 761-8737 jquinn@nortelnetworks.com Fax: (514) 761-8505 Speech Recognition Research [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]