Re: ifconfig & module problems
Michael Meskes (meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Fri, 3 May 1996 09:26:04 +0200 (MET DST)
raju@dontpanic.indiagate.com writes:
> Andy> Whenever I run ifconfig, I get the following error messages:
>
> Andy> Apr 25 12:13:33 utnapishtim modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
> Andy> Apr 25 12:13:35 utnapishtim modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-3
> Andy> Apr 25 12:13:37 utnapishtim modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
>
> Andy> The program works, so I guess no harm, no foul. But what is going on?
> Andy> I got the net-tools-1.3.6-BETA5 package, and have modules-1.3.57, as
> per
> Andy> Documentation/Changes.txt.
> Andy> [snip]
>
> Ditto symptoms, using modules-1.3.69f and linux-1.3.89, completely
> a.out.
You can get rid of it by aliasing net-pf[345] to 'off' in /etc/conf.modules.
The code for net-pf-[345] simply isn't modularized at all.
Bjorn, could you please add the off-alias to all the code that's not
modularized?
Michael
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