modprobe: Can'l locate module char-major-108
I did a Google search for <char-major-108> and it turned up over 4000 hits!!!!
Why is this module missing?? I understand that the PPP Daemon is inoperative without this module! Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated:) :) |
Add this line to your /etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic The actual module name is ppp_generic |
OK, can do :)
However, when I looked at <modules.conf> there was a big WARNING sign, that said: ###DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE Look at modutils and manpage UPDATE-MODULES Both of which helped me not at all in how to change the modules.conf file :confused: It also said if I changed it, that it would be overwritten anyway :study: In a dilemma |
My bad Debian is different, I believe you need to do the following:
edit /etc/modutils/aliases and then run "update-modules". See "man 8 update-modules". |
Interesting:confused:
I opened the aliases file in /etc/modutils and: it already contained two uncommented lines referring to ppp "alias char-major-108 ppp_generic" "alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic" I have run update-modules but apparently it hasn't changed anything :jawa: I wonder why :Pengy: Any other insights? |
P.S.
I believe I understand why nothing changed:( According to the Man update-modules, there is a 'special' tag placed on the first line of both <modules.conf> and <chandev.conf> files IF the files have been generated which allows these files to be (re)generated. If the tag is not there - nothing is changed, if 'force' is used (which I did) only a warning is issued. How does one update-modules under these circumstances :confused: And - are these files untagged because they generated at kernel compile time and the only way they can be changed is by re-compiling the kernel? :newbie: |
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