Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:20:35 -0500 | From | Myrdraal <> | Subject | Re: Questions about the new kernel |
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On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:46:01AM -0500, el mono wrote: Hi, > After reading the documentation included in the 2.2.1 kernel release the > following questions came to my mind: > [snip] Sorry, couldn't answer those first two questions off the top of my head. > 3- Do I still have to start kerneld at startup?. After reading kmod.txt > i think that > kerneld is obsolete cause the kernel will not call it anymore so load it > will be a loss of memory but the Changes file in the modules section says: > > As of 2.1.90-pre1, kerneld has been replaced by a kernel thread, > kmod. See Documentation/kmod.txt for more information. The main > user-level change this requires is modification to your init scripts to > check for the absence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe before starting > kerneld. > > So should I start kerneld or not??? That "check /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe" thing is a way of detecting whether you are on a kernel that uses kmod or not. If you are on 2.1.90 or later, then you do not need to start kerneld at all. If /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe exists then you are on 2.1.90 or later, and use kmod, so don't start kerneld. > 4- Every time I start a ppp session modprobe says: > > Feb 21 01:28:09 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21 > Feb 21 01:28:09 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26 > Feb 21 01:28:10 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24 Add these lines to your /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules if you use that. It makes no difference.): alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-1 off # This is Predictor-1, not yet supported > > But i have searched all over the kernel documentation and configuration > and i can't see anything about this modules all i have seen is the line: > > --- CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. > > After the ppp-support option. How can i get this modules??? That's stuff like slhc and bsd_comp and ppp_deflate. They get built automagically for you when you enable PPP. > I hope anybody can help me with this. I hope that was the information you needed. :) -Myrdraal -- Linux jackalz 2.2.1 #53 Thu Jan 28 16:13:24 EST 1999 i586 unknown 8:17am up 16 days, 10:57, 30 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.30 **[ Linux: Because a penguin makes a better mascot than Satan. ]**
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