You need slip module or compiled into the kernel I think.
At 09:09 AM 5/8/99 , Jeremy Wiebe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to set up diald on my home PC. I have compiled and installed it
>successfully. I am sure that the problem is related to my kernel
>configuration or conf.modules file but I can't figure it out. When I
>actually run diald I get the following errors in my /var/log/messages:
>
>May 8 08:19:57 jeropa diald[759]: start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not
>supported
>May 8 08:19:58 jeropa modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
>May 8 08:19:58 jeropa modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
>May 8 08:19:58 jeropa diald[759]: Could not get socket to do packet
>monitoring: Socket type not supported
>May 8 08:19:58 jeropa diald[759]: Diald is dieing with code 1
>
>Any help would be appreciated...
>
>P.S. I finally found where those net-pf numbes were described and it said
>this:
>#define AF_PACKET 17 /* Packet family
>
>I made sure to compile this as a module and put:
>alias net-pf-17 af_packet
>in my conf.modules. This did not help at all. When I ran diald it loaded
>the af_packed module but died with the same message.
>
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