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Re: new weird module message during bootup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stu Green)
Wed Nov 6 02:38:22 1996
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 01:36:24 -0600
From: Stu Green <stugreen@bga.com>
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jyan-min fang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After cleaning up the module files in /lib/module/2.0.18, the annoying
> modules-related message (unresolved symbol.., wrong version...) during
> bootup were finally gone, but today I got another message during
> bootup again. It goes something like this,
>
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
>
> anyway, it still bootup fine, but why does it try to locate those modules?
> I didn't ask for that! The kernel is the same kernel I used before, which
> has module support, but I haven't enable any module to be insmoded yet. So
> why does it ask for those module now? btw, it is also very smart. After I
> removed the files in /lib/module/2.0.18, including modules.dep, it still
> asked for those modules (net-pf-4, net-pf-5) and created a new modules.dep
> file in /lib/modules/2.0.18 after bootup.
>
> Anyway, I recompiled a new kernel with no module support and it is not
> thinking for those modules now. but can anyone tell me why the kernel
> will try to locate those module if I include module support in it.
>
> jmf
>
> I suspect the kernel may be corrupted, so I recompiled a new kernel
> with module support, but no modules to be used yet. but this new kernel
> stll gave the same message above.
Try adding
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
to the file /etc/conf.modules
That file is read at boot. The net-pf-<stuff> is ipx related.
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