I'm assuming that you mean net-pf-[3-5], rather than just pf-[3-5]. Assuming that your system is otherwise working correctly, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules:
alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off What's happening, is that the system is seeing packets for various networking protocols, and attempting to load modules to support them (which weren't selected when your kernel was compiled). net-pf-3 is ax25, net-pf-4 is ipx, and net-pf-5 is appletalk. > Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-4 > Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-3 > Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-5