> Anyway, my question is this, everytime I boot up my machine (and > subsequently when I ran diald) I would see a message that says: > > " modprobe can't locate module net-pf-4 > modprobe can't locate module net-pf-5 " > > this happens 8 times, four for each module. > What are modules net-pf-4 and net-pf-5? Could they be effecting my > diald configuration? Jeff-- You can safely ignore this kernel message. Basically, during boot initialization, a module dependency file is built using the 'depmod -a' command. For some reason, the program insists on setting up aliases for kernel modules that don't exist. In the case of net-pf-4 and net-pf-5, these are aliases for appletalk and ipx. If you're kernel isn't configured to use these modules, they can't be found when modprobe is invoked to automatically load modules. What the message *should* say is "modprobe can't find module ipx/appletalk/whatever". You can see all the aliases that are defined with the command 'modprobe -c'. To disable these messages, you need to inform depmod that these aliases should be left undefined. You can do this with the following entries in the /etc/conf.modules file: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off Hope this helps. I spent months asking around, and no one really knew the answer (or at least they weren't speaking up). I stumbled across it one night while perusing the depmod manpage. --Brian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
