Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 11662
wvdial created account fails with pppd modprobe error
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:55 EDT
I just got a new 56K Modem from Creative Labs called a ModemBlaster. It is automatically detected at the proper serial port by wvDial but when I attempt to activate the connection I see a load of garbage in the log window and then pppd dies. Upon reviewing /var/log/messages I see a series of errors as follows: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 pppd[9814]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I pppd[9814]: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address. Not sure whats causing this but I know that locate can't find ANY char-major-108 anywhere on system. Does it need to be aliased in conf.modules? Thanks for Help
The modprobe message isn't an error; pppd supports features in the 2.3 series of kernels, and that's the message you'll see when it tests for those features and finds that they're not there. Please get the initscripts update from http://www.redhat.com/errata/, which will fix the second message. The quick workaround is to add "noauth" to your /etc/ppp/options file.