The easiest way to get all this stuff right is 

modprobe -c > /etc/conf.modules

the -c argument causes modprobe to print a complete conf.modules (less any
strange stuff specific to your machine), so I just redirect it to the
file. The installer should do this, though...

Hmm... or did you mean modprobe left these out of its generated file when
you said 'modprobe doesn't know these aliases'. It only (as far as I know)
follows directives in the file, not other ones it knows.

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Jerry Quinn wrote:

I have a question that I'm not sure is best directed to kernel people or
user-space people as it crosses the line.

After a bunch of time trying to figure out why the ppp compression
modules weren't getting loaded automatically, I traced it the fact that
the appropriate aliases are not present in /etc/conf.modules.

In particular, the following aliases are required:

ppp-compress-21	= bsd-compress
ppp-compress-24 = ppp-deflate
ppp-compress-26 = ppp-deflate

I vaguely remember seeing this advice once in the past which I promptly
forgot.  So now I'd like to save others the headache and make sure this
get set up right.

The current situation is as follows: 

* modprobe 2.1.121 (which is apparently still the current version for R5
as of may 23 - I haven't reupdated) doesn't know these aliases

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