Bug 49516 – adsl-connect says ppp is missing and kernel misses it too. no module found!

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Navid Zamani 2004-04-30 09:43:37 UTC]

adsl-start does not work for 2004.1, because adsl-connect can't find the device. (yes, i did adsl-setup before, and the network works fine ;)
after creating the device with mkdev (don't know the name of the command anymore, but i copied it straight from the adsl-connect error-message), adsl-connect tells me the kernel is missing ppp-support.
i also can't find a module for ppp...

with 2004.0 everything worked fine...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot into the 2004.1-live-cd
2. modprobe 8139too
3. modprobe 3c59x
4. net-setup eth0
5. net-setup eth1
6. adsl-setup
7. adsl-start
(does hide the adsl-connect output, so after 7 i did:)
8. adsl-connect

Actual Results:  
adsl-start did terminate because of a timeout.
adsl-connect gave me an error that ppp is missing...

Expected Results:  
connect to the internet using pppoe, and the data i gave in adsl-start, when
calling adsl-start

everything was fine in 2004.0

[Comment 1 Navid Zamani 2004-04-30 09:45:04 UTC]

oops, i meant:

Expected Results:  
connect to the internet using pppoe, and the data i gave in adsl-setup, when
calling adsl-start

[Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-04-30 09:58:46 UTC]

Can you try to load the pppoe module manually and reissue adsl-setup?

[Comment 3 Ng, Wey-Han 2004-06-27 09:42:41 UTC]

I have the same problem and tyring to load the pppoe module will result in quite a few unresolved symbol.

I have also check from the /proc/config that the kernel is configured with PPP=m but there is no ppp.o file in the /lib/modules directory.

[Comment 4 Rodrigo Severo 2004-06-27 17:44:27 UTC]

I had this problem during my last gentoo install.

The problem is that ppp_generic.ko can't be loaded because of unresolved symbols which are, in fact, provided by slhc.ko.

I manually "modprobe slhc" and everything went on fine.

I believe the modules.dep of the 2004.1 Universal CD is lacking a dependency of slhc from ppp_generic. I will check that and report later.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-06-28 05:31:37 UTC]

Try using the CD in the /experimental/x86/livecd folder on your local Gentoo mirror instead and let me know if it works.  I need testing on it for 2004.2... thanks.

[Comment 6 Navid Zamani 2004-06-28 05:53:03 UTC]

i'm sorry, but i'm not able to test this for the next months. maybe someone other could do it...

at least my system runned fine since that. :)

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-20 19:23:27 UTC]

I'm going to NEEDINFO this since without some testing, I can't verify anything.