Re: [2.1.78] Works well! SB sound, ppp, stuff. But 2 strangenesses...

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@UCSD.Edu)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:59:04 -0800


Trevor Johnson wrote:
>
> > Jan 5 21:35:23 bredelin modprobe: can't locate module ppp0
> >
> > PPP works fine, because I didn't compile it as a module, but directly!
>
> Putting a line
>
> alias ppp0 off
>
> in your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules might make the error
> message go away.
Yahh... but this makes me kind of nervous, because I might be fixing
the symptom instead of the bug. Why would something try to load the
module specifically? Don't modules get auto-loaded by kerneld when
their symbols get called?

-BenRI