Bad module name: can't alias off! "^L2^H@0-"

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@UCSD.Edu)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 21:19:15 -0800


Hi, I just got kernel 2.1.80-pre2, and it works great, except for one
annoying problem:

Jan 14 20:47:43 bredelin modprobe: can't locate module ^L2^H@0-
Jan 14 20:47:55 bredelin last message repeated 25 times
Jan 14 20:52:06 bredelin modprobe: can't locate module ^L2^H@0-
Jan 14 20:52:11 bredelin last message repeated 19 times
Jan 14 20:57:06 bredelin modprobe: can't locate module ^L2^H@0-
Jan 14 20:57:50 bredelin last message repeated 230 times
Jan 14 20:59:04 bredelin last message repeated 214 times
Jan 14 21:00:14 bredelin last message repeated 246 times

This is related to net access.
The problem is that I can't alias this off. I'm not really surprised
to find out that symbols like "^" shouldn't occur in modules names.
These are the modules that I have built:

telomere:~> ls /lib/modules/2.1.80/*/*
/lib/modules/2.1.80/block/loop.o /lib/modules/2.1.80/misc/sunrpc.o
/lib/modules/2.1.80/fs/lockd.o
/lib/modules/2.1.80/net/bsd_comp.o
/lib/modules/2.1.80/fs/nfs.o /lib/modules/2.1.80/net/dummy.o
/lib/modules/2.1.80/misc/proform.o
/lib/modules/2.1.80/net/ppp_deflate.o

If this were a real modules name, then I would suspect it came from
lockd.o, nfs.o, or sunrpc.o. Because I don't usually get those as
modules. Hmm....
Thanks for any help,
-BenRI