No PPP in 2.6.16 Kernel
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jun 14 06:57:01 UTC 2006
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iirc, it was caused by the pptp package bundling its own (out of date)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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