From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <376FFF26.A7493FF1@americasm01.nt.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:24:54 -0400 From: "Jerry Quinn" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: puetzk6715@uni.edu CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ppp compression module aliases? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 > > -- 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. ]]