Re: No PPP in 2.6.16 Kernel

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:30:15AM +0000, David Hough wrote:
 > This one has me baffled. I have a system running quite happily with
 > kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 and I use it with pptp to establish a VPN
 > connection. This works fine. However, both my attempts to use 2.6.16
 > upgrade kernels (both 2111 and 2122, shown below) have failed due to the
 > errors as found in the system log.
 > 
 > The strange thing is that I've got another machine where the upgrade
 > went quite happily and the PPP modules have installed without arguments.
 > 
 > Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? I assume I've lost a module
 > somewhere although the only one that ppp_generic appears to require is
 > slhc and that's present.
 > =========================
 > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ppp_generic
 > (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5/kernel/d
 > rivers/net/ppp_generic.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown
 > parameter (see dmesg)
 > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of
 > the University of California
 > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol
 > class_simple_device_add
 > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol
 > class_simple_destroy
 > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol
 > class_simple_device_remove
 > Jun 10 09:46:39 robinton kernel: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol
 > class_simple_create

Hmm, I vaguely remember this from quite a while back.
iirc, it was caused by the pptp package bundling its own (out of date)
ppp_generic module.  The kernel rpm does include ppp_generic.ko, and it's
not reliant upon any of those symbols.

		Dave

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