Karl Ferguson asked: > I've compiled SLIP into the kernel (2.0.10), however I get this following > message in /var/log/daemon.log: > > Aug 1 10:30:49 orion /sliplogin[319]: attaching slip unit sl0 for karl > Aug 1 10:30:49 orion /sliplogin[319]: /etc/slip.login sl0 9600 319 > 203.22.233.3 203.15.138.211 compressed > Aug 1 10:30:50 orion modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 > Aug 1 10:20:51 orion modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5 > > Of course, slip just doesn't seem to work at all. My question is, where are > these modules it can't locate - and if I can find them, will it fix this > problem? >
Andrew Howell's explanation was right. A somewhat amplified answer was provided by Michael Meses in May. Derek Lee had written" > When I use ifconfig, I get the error messages: > > May 22 01:18:19 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 > May 22 01:18:19 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-3 > May 22 01:18:20 boson modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5 > > Is something missing? I have a PPP connection to the outside world, > but no local network. Michael Meskes responded: >This is not a bug at all. When calling ifconfig it tries quite a lot of >possible network interfaces. net-pf-5 is appletalk, net-pf-4 is ipx and >net-pf-3 is ax.25. If you don't use these add entries > >alias net-pf-3 off >alias net-pf-4 off >alias net-pf-5 off > >to your /etc/conf.modules file and the messages will disappear." HTH, Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
