Re: Modprobe Question

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Mike Acklin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:36:19AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
> >       About the modprobe errors:
> >
> >       This doesn't have anything to do with xringd.  Its refering to various
> > network protocols built as modules when you compiled your kernel.  In
> > /etc/conf.modules or the newer location /etc/modutils/alias, make sure
> > the following lines are uncommented:
> >
> >       alias net-pf-3 off
> >       alias net-pf-4 off                      # IPX
> >       alias net-pf-5 off                      # DDP / appletalk
> >
> >
> >       If you *are* using IPX or Appletalk, then the modprobe error message
> > really is an error message that is saying it can't find the requested
> > module to load.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ed C.
> 
> Ed,
> 
>         Thanks for the info. I do not have IPX or Appletalk. I don't know
> what the pf-3 is but I went ahead and commented all three of them out. All I
> have is TCP/IP via a dial-up account from my ISP. I do have slip installed
> so I can use diald. But really don't know what else to do. I really didn't
> compile the kernel, as just downloaded the 2.0.35 image and that is why I am
> probably getting that error message.
> 
>         Thanks again for the help.
> 
> Mike Acklin


	Did you mean you *commented out* those lines or that you *uncommented*
those lines.  To kill the error messages, these line need to be
*UNcommented out*.  I just discovered, though, that for whatever reason,
the new location of the config files, in /etc/modutils/, isn't being
read.  Only /etc/conf.modules is being read.  Don't know why.  I'm also
using a custom-compiled kernel, with no modules built for the above
protocols, so that may make a difference (are standard "kernel-image"
packages built with everything as modules?).



-- 
Ed C.