app-pda/synce-serial-0.8.9 fails in loading module ppp_async, but this modules is already compiled in kernel!!! kernel is 2.6.7-gentoo-r10 and linux-2.6.7-rc3-love2 i have this tested with ppp_async compiled as module. same result. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.synce-serial-start 2. 3. Actual Results: FATAL: Module ppp_async not found. synce-serial-start was unable to load the ppp_async kernel module: Please add this module to your Linux kernel before running this script again. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r10) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe -msse -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe -msse -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest prelink sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl alsa apm arts avantgo avi berkdb bindist bluetooth bonobo cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb dvb dvd encode esd fbcon flash foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mpeg nas ncurses nls nv nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode x86 xkb xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
applicable part from file: synce-serial-start # # Check for ppp_async kernel module # if [ "`uname -s`" = "Linux" ]; then if ! modprobe ppp_async; then echo " ${THIS} was unable to load the ppp_async kernel module: Please add this module to your Linux kernel before running this script again. " >&2 exit 1 fi fi
are you running it as root? you can't modprobe if you're not root
yes, as root
It gave me that error, I compiled the module, and it worked fine for me. Is ppp_async compiled as a module or directly into the kernel?
first compiled into kernel, after compiled as module.
FATAL: Error inserting ppp_async (/lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) dmesg: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for ppp failed to register PPP device (-17) ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_channel_index ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_register_channel ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_input ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_input_error ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_output_wakeup ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_unregister_channel ppp_async: Unknown symbol ppp_unit_number
you have problems with your kernel, not synce. you need to insert the ppp module before ppp_async.
