Re: 2.3.43 breaks pppd! (SOLVED, possible config gotcha)

[Paul Barton-Davis]

>But you haven't _told_ modprobe about the dependencies involved here.
>You're right that it can't be worked out automatically, but we have
>static information in /etc/modules.conf; for example the post-install
>and pre-remove options have the right functionality here, as I understand
>the problem.

I agree with you that the functionality is there. However, both the
PPP driver and pppd have been written and documented in a way that
means, as we both agree, that makes it hard or impossible to figure
out the dependencies without hunting through the source code. I
suspect that they are not alone in that trait. A tool like modprobe is
not particularly useful if you can't figure out what to tell it.

--p