diff --git a/src/NetworkManagerUtils.c b/src/NetworkManagerUtils.c
index cc1cef467..fdaa31cd7 100644
--- a/src/NetworkManagerUtils.c
+++ b/src/NetworkManagerUtils.c
@@ -303,8 +303,19 @@ nm_spawn_process (const char *args, GError **error)
 	return status;
 }
 
+static const char *
+_trunk_first_line (char *str)
+{
+	char *s;
+
+	s = strchr (str, '\n');
+	if (s)
+		s[0] = '\0';
+	return str;
+}
+
 int
-nm_utils_modprobe (GError **error, const char *arg1, ...)
+nm_utils_modprobe (GError **error, gboolean suppress_error_logging, const char *arg1, ...)
 {
 	gs_unref_ptrarray GPtrArray *argv = NULL;
 	int exit_status;
@@ -312,6 +323,8 @@ nm_utils_modprobe (GError **error, const char *arg1, ...)
 #define ARGV_TO_STR(argv)   (_log_str ? _log_str : (_log_str = g_strjoinv (" ", (char **) argv->pdata)))
 	GError *local = NULL;
 	va_list ap;
+	NMLogLevel llevel = suppress_error_logging ? LOGL_DEBUG : LOGL_ERR;
+	gs_free char *std_out = NULL, *std_err = NULL;
 
 	g_return_val_if_fail (!error || !*error, -1);
 	g_return_val_if_fail (arg1, -1);
@@ -329,12 +342,14 @@ nm_utils_modprobe (GError **error, const char *arg1, ...)
 	g_ptr_array_add (argv, NULL);
 
 	nm_log_dbg (LOGD_CORE, "modprobe: '%s'", ARGV_TO_STR (argv));
-	if (!g_spawn_sync (NULL, (char **) argv->pdata, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &exit_status, &local)) {
-		nm_log_err (LOGD_CORE, "modprobe: '%s' failed: %s", ARGV_TO_STR (argv), local->message);
+	if (!g_spawn_sync (NULL, (char **) argv->pdata, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, &std_out, &std_err, &exit_status, &local)) {
+		nm_log (llevel, LOGD_CORE, "modprobe: '%s' failed: %s", ARGV_TO_STR (argv), local->message);
 		g_propagate_error (error, local);
 		return -1;
 	} else if (exit_status != 0)
-		nm_log_err (LOGD_CORE, "modprobe: '%s' exited with error %d", ARGV_TO_STR (argv), exit_status);
+		nm_log (llevel, LOGD_CORE, "modprobe: '%s' exited with error %d%s%s%s%s%s%s", ARGV_TO_STR (argv), exit_status,
+		        std_out&&*std_out ? " (" : "", std_out&&*std_out ? _trunk_first_line (std_out) : "", std_out&&*std_out ? ")" : "",
+		        std_err&&*std_err ? " (" : "", std_err&&*std_err ? _trunk_first_line (std_err) : "", std_err&&*std_err ? ")" : "");
 
 	return exit_status;
 }
diff --git a/src/NetworkManagerUtils.h b/src/NetworkManagerUtils.h
index c7b1e1362..762471526 100644
--- a/src/NetworkManagerUtils.h
+++ b/src/NetworkManagerUtils.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ nm_utils_ip6_route_metric_normalize (guint32 metric)
 
 int nm_spawn_process (const char *args, GError **error);
 
-int nm_utils_modprobe (GError **error, const char *arg1, ...) G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED;
+int nm_utils_modprobe (GError **error, gboolean suppress_error_loggin, const char *arg1, ...) G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED;
 
 /**
  * str_if_set:
diff --git a/src/devices/nm-device.c b/src/devices/nm-device.c
index ee767ebca..9e3a10bf0 100644
--- a/src/devices/nm-device.c
+++ b/src/devices/nm-device.c
@@ -5294,7 +5294,7 @@ share_init (void)
 	}
 
 	for (iter = modules; *iter; iter++)
-		nm_utils_modprobe (NULL, *iter, NULL);
+		nm_utils_modprobe (NULL, FALSE, *iter, NULL);
 
 	return TRUE;
 }
diff --git a/src/platform/nm-linux-platform.c b/src/platform/nm-linux-platform.c
index 3ae29dafa..64f33af5d 100644
--- a/src/platform/nm-linux-platform.c
+++ b/src/platform/nm-linux-platform.c
@@ -2439,7 +2439,7 @@ link_add (NMPlatform *platform,
 		 * bond0 automatically.
 		 */
 		if (!g_file_test ("/sys/class/net/bonding_masters", G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS))
-			nm_utils_modprobe (NULL, "bonding", "max_bonds=0", NULL);
+			nm_utils_modprobe (NULL, TRUE, "bonding", "max_bonds=0", NULL);
 	}
 
 	debug ("link: add link '%s' of type '%s' (%d)",
diff --git a/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c b/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c
index d410ebfab..c13672976 100644
--- a/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c
+++ b/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ nm_ppp_manager_start (NMPPPManager *manager,
 
 	/* Make sure /dev/ppp exists (bgo #533064) */
 	if (stat ("/dev/ppp", &st) || !S_ISCHR (st.st_mode))
-		nm_utils_modprobe (NULL, "ppp_generic", NULL);
+		nm_utils_modprobe (NULL, FALSE, "ppp_generic", NULL);
 
 	connection = nm_act_request_get_connection (req);
 	g_assert (connection);