FATAL: Error inserting ppp-async...

[David A. Bandel]

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Regurgitating the prose of Net Llama! "Net Llama!"
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> on Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:09:15 -0700:

|On 10/22/2004 08:59 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
|> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:14:07PM -0700, Net Llama! took 45 lines to
|write:> 
|>>On 10/22/2004 08:03 PM, Clint Tevlin wrote:
|> 
|> 
|> [snippage]
|> 
|> 
|>>>insmod /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.ko.gz 
|>>>insmod /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.ko.gz 
|>>
|>>Why are your modules gzipped??  I've never seen that before.  Try 
|>>gunzipping them.
|> 
|> 
|> modutils knows how to deal with gzipped modules.
|
|wow, i missed that memo.  When did that happen?
|

Depending on how modutils is compiled (meaning: depending on how your
distro compiled it, with or without the --use-zlib flag), modutils may
or may not understand compressed modules.

try `ldd insmod` to see if libz is one of the libraries used.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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