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Re: Can't locate module net-pf-5

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Oct 25 15:45:25 1996

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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:34:50 CDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:41:06 -0400
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Terry Eck writes:
>On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Graham Hemmings wrote:
>>I have two Colgate machines, one boots fine but the other is reporting
>>
>>"modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5"
>>
>>I cannot locate this module on either machine.
>>What is it, what does it do, do I need it and where can I find it?
>
>I noticed the same problem with my upgrade. What does this mean?

It's harmless.  It's just saying that it doesn't know what module to
load for network protocol family 5, which is appletalk ddp.  If you
aren't using appletalk, you can safely ignore it.  You can turn it
off by adding a line to /etc/conf.modules like this:
alias net-pf-5 off

michaelkjohnson

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