PPP daemon died!

Owen Stampflee yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Dec 21 22:28:00 2002


Ken Grunke wrote:

>"This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel
>module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not included in kernel
>configuration.
>If PPP was included as a module, try /sbin/modprobe -v ppp
>If that fails, check that ppp.p exists in /lib/modules/"uname t"/net"
>
>If the PPP kernel module wasn't installed, can I use Package Manager with the CD
>loaded to install it?
>
>"Finding module dependencies:
>can't open lib/modules/2.2.19-lr/modules.dep for writing
>FAILED
>mount: fs type tmpfs not supported by kernel
>FAILED"
>
Try the 2.4 kernel. 2.2 doesnt support tmpfs IIRC (or it calls it 
something else)

The two problems you are having are directly correlated as modutils cant 
find the modules even if they exist and such, doesnt load the PPP module.

Owen