kppp problem

[shamrock@mtco.com]

Ok, so I just installed RH 7.1 and one of the first things I did was set up kppp.  It dials my ISP, connects, but DNS is not working.  Funny, because whether I tell it to automatically grab DNS or I manually configure resolv.conf, Linux seems to totally ignore it.  

Looking at /var/log/messages I am seeing this:

messages:Sep 25 18:48:41 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
messages:Sep 25 18:48:41 localhost pppd[2061]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
messages:Sep 25 18:48:41 localhost pppd[2061]: Using interface ppp0
messages:Sep 25 18:48:41 localhost pppd[2061]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
messages:Sep 25 18:48:57 localhost pppd[2061]: local  IP address 207.179.197.221
messages:Sep 25 18:48:57 localhost pppd[2061]: remote IP address 207.179.197.2
messages:Sep 25 18:48:57 localhost pppd[2061]: primary   DNS address 207.179.200.2
messages:Sep 25 18:48:57 localhost pppd[2061]: secondary DNS address 207.179.200.10

And sure enough, the resolv.conf:

[root@localhost /etc]# cat resolv.conf
nameserver 207.179.200.2        #kppp temp entry
nameserver 207.179.200.10       #kppp temp entry

Now to make it more interesting.  If I invoke pppd with a simple script, DNS works.  I use the ppp-on script (comes from /usr/share/doc/ppp-2.4.0/scripts/ppp-on).

So two questions:

1) why the error "modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0"

2) why no DNS, even though it's obviously getting picked up? (yes, those are the correct DNS servers)

Thanks -
Derek

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