Re: [RFC] misleading error message

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >> I compiled built-in support for iptables in my new 2.6.9 kernel, but when my
>> >> legacy firewall does a "modprobe ip_tables" , I get the startling message:
>> >> "FATAL: module ip_tables not found" .
>> >
>> >In my oppinion the message is perfectly clear. You told modprobe to load a
>> >module, the file was not found so it is forced to give up - and that's
>> >exactely what it told you.
>>
>> So how would you go about finding out whether something is compiled-in?
>>
>Personally I'd just go check my kernels .config

Please, think of the newbies (tm)


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