Re: Diald "obsolete" error
On 12 Feb, Ted Behling wrote:
> I'm trying to run diald to automate my PPP connection. I don't recall the
> exact sequence of events when I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.1, but
> it now generates the following lines in /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb 8 15:36:22 salsa kernel: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
> Feb 8 15:36:23 salsa diald[612]: Diald is dying with code 1
>
> Diald then terminates. I'm using the package that came with Debian 2.0,
> and according to the diald man page, I'm running version 0.16 (1997-01-28).
> I've checked the diald Web page, but it didn't cite this problem. Is
> there a fix?
>
> (Crossposted to linux-diald and debian-user)
Without more info, I can't really say what is happening, but I will
take a guess. Do you have the following line in /etc/conf.modules:
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
Do you have the af_packet.o kernel module? It may be that af_packet
was compiled as a module (or not compiled at all) and is not loaded.
I can definitely say that the message about the obsolete interface is
not harmful and can be ignored. That is not the cause of the problem.
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Todd J Martin
todd.martin@acm.org
marttj@aud.alcatel.com
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