modules & modprobe

Michael L. Collins (mcollins@alpha.cs.uttyl.edu)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:18:54 -0600


I was getting:
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5.
modprobe: can't locate module ppp0

Why is it looking for ppp0 module when I included ppp, not as module?

I saw in the list to add to /etc/conf.modules if not using Apple
Networking.
My /etc/conf.modules file looks like:
alias eth0 3c509
alias eth0 3c509
# No ax25 modules available yet.
alias net-pf-3 off
# IPX is net-pf-4
# Appletalk
alias net-pf-5 off

The two entries for eth0 were already in the file.
Do I need both? Would this be causing a problem?

I rebooted, but did not recompile.

modprobe -c show
alias eth0 off
alias net-pf-5 appletalk

Why is eth0 off?
Why is appletalk on, I turned it off in /etc/conf.modules did I not?

thanks,
Michael

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