[ale] redhat and missing modules

[gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Joe Novosel wrote:

> On all of my Redhat machines that I have rebuilt kernels on I get:
> Mar 31 23:40:51 bigdog modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
> Mar 31 23:40:51 bigdog modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
> 
> Does anyone know what net-pf-4 and 5 are or how to get rid of these 
> messages?

They're IPX and AppleTalk drivers.  If you need them, compile them.
Otherwise, edit /etc/conf.modules and add the following lines:

alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off

Kerneld will then not try to auto-load them on boot-up.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                   gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu