Re: ifconfig & module problems
Tom Dyas (tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu)
Sat, 4 May 96 23:27:30 EDT
> 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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Appletalk and IPX *are* modularized.