Knoppix 5: Linux kernel does not support PPPoE?

wosto · 04-06-2006, 02:11 PM

Hi all,

does anybody know the meaning of the message:
"Linux kernel does not support PPPoE - are you runnnig 2.4.x?"
I get it with Knoppix 5 installed on HD.
Oddly enough booting from Knoppix 5 Live CD on the same PC and setting up DSL with pppoeconf in the same way works without any problems

Thanx for any hint.

b0uncer · 04-07-2006, 08:47 AM

I'm not sure, but have you loaded the module(s) for pppoe in the kernel (if they're not builtin)? Try

lsmod | grep pppoe

(shows if you have such a module loaded, and if not, then):

modprobe -l | grep pppoe

(if you got lucky and that shows you something/pppoe.ko then do):

modprobe pppoe

and try again..

wosto · 04-10-2006, 02:00 AM

Thanks - but unfortunately this isn`t the reason.
lsmod shows the pppoe modules. To assure things I even tried to manually add generic_ppp to the /etc/modules. With no succes.