[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#265781: alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-k7: removal affects future unrelated modprobes

[Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-k7
Severity: normal

Weeks ago I installed and started using kernel 2.6.
As all was well, I decided to
apt-get --purge remove alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-k7
apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7
as I hadn't used them weeks, right.
Well, now I can't call out on my modem with ppp:
pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because
the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
included in the kernel configuration.  If PPP was included as a
module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'.  If that fails, check that
ppp.o exists in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net.
See README.linux file in the ppp distribution for more details.

# /sbin/modprobe -v ppp
FATAL: Failed to open config file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa: No such file or directory
etc. etc.

OK, I reinstall kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7 and alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-k7
and now I can use ppp in 2.4, but not in 2.6 like I used to.

So before I could happily use alsa and ppp in 2.6, but now I must use
2.4 if I even want to make a modem call.