[SWLUG] problems with ppp dial up internet access.

[Gavin Burnett]

Hello all. I am hoping for some insight into a problem I have got stuck on 
recently.

My computer uses a modem to dial up to an ISP for ppp based internet access. 
This has been working very well, but recently it stopped working for no 
apparent reason.  The ppp support in the kernel works ok, the modem works 
ok, I have tried a different ISP with no effect,
and I know that the dialling scripts are sound. I have eliminated everything 
else, apart from this in the messages file after a dialout has failed.

Nov  3 15:27:53 comp-linux insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/ppp.o: insmod 
ppp0 failed

trying to do an insmod on this module produces the following:

insmod /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ppp.o
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ppp.o: couldn't find the kernel version the 
module was compiled for

and doing a depmod produces the following:

depmod /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ppp.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ppp.o
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ppp.o:

# module             vendor     device     subvendor  subdevice  class      
class_mask driver_data

I am running kernel version 2.2.16-22, and this is the only version I have 
installed.

Is there a way to rectify this problem?

Gavin.
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Gavin K Burnett
gburnett at hotmail.com
http://gavin.burnett.tripod.com/index.html
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