Re: Installing ppp/pppd in arm-linux

[Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:29 -0400, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> Nathan M wrote:
> 
> > In terms of modprobe, I have it installed, however Compulab has
> > included libc-2.2.2 in their 2.6.7 image as opposed to libc-2.2.3. 
> > Since modprobe requires glibc 2.2.3, I get the following error
> > whenever attempting to use modprobe:
> > 
> > "modprobe: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2.3' not found (required
> > by modprobe)"
> 
> That's just preventing you from running modprobe.  If you fixed this 
> problem (by getting appropriate glibc, or recompiling modprobe against 
> the glibc you do have), then you will find a much bigger problem: the 
> version of modprobe you've got only understands 2.4 kernel modules.
> It will not load .ko modules from 2.6.  You will have to update to a 
> later version of modutils (probably, build it from source, because there 
> is not a suitable version on netwinder.org).

For 2.6 kernels there is a new package module-init-tools which replaces
the old modutils and provides modprobe, insmod etc.

If you install the modutils files as e.g. /sbin/modprobe.old then the
module-init-tools /sbin/modprobe will call it if it detects a 2.4
kernel, for backward compatibility.

Ian.

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