From: "Jerry Quinn" <jquinn@nortelnetworks.com>
To: puetzk6715@uni.edu
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: ppp compression module aliases?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:24:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <376FFF26.A7493FF1@americasm01.nt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.PMDF.3.96.990622120549.539020675E-100000@uni.edu
puetzk6715@uni.edu wrote:
>
> The easiest way to get all this stuff right is
>
> modprobe -c > /etc/conf.modules
>
> the -c argument causes modprobe to print a complete conf.modules (less any
> strange stuff specific to your machine), so I just redirect it to the
> file. The installer should do this, though...
>
> Hmm... or did you mean modprobe left these out of its generated file when
> you said 'modprobe doesn't know these aliases'. It only (as far as I know)
Yes. modprobe -c doesn't include ppp-compress aliases, at least my
version doesn't have them.
>
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Jerry Quinn wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-22 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-20 20:28 ppp compression module aliases? Jerry Quinn
1999-06-22 17:08 ` puetzk6715
1999-06-22 21:24 ` Jerry Quinn [this message]
1999-06-23 1:09 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-06-23 18:56 ` Re[2]: " Barrie Spence
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