Kenneth Stephen wrote:
>
> My previous sending has obviously been chewed up by some malevolent server
> on the 'net. Hence the repost...
>
> There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 21:09:59 -0600 (CST)
> From: Kenneth Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Whats with net-pf-5?
>
> Hi,
>
> I must be missing something obvious. Here is a boot script that is
> part of the Debian boot process :
>
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> Right after the two 'ifconfig' statements, I get a message saying
> that modprobe was unable to find the module net-pf-5. This is after a
> fresh build of 2.0.36 (make config; make dep; make clean; make bzImage;
> make modules; make modules_install).
>
> Kerneld is configured to autoload. I looked at the source code,
> and here is where the error occurs : (from /usr/src/linux/net/socket.c)
>
> /*
> * Perform the socket system call. we locate the appropriate
> * family, then create a fresh socket.
> */
>
> static int find_protocol_family(int family)
> {
> register int i;
> for (i = 0; i < NPROTO; i++)
> {
> if (pops[i] == NULL)
> continue;
> if (pops[i]->family == family)
> return i;
> }
> return -1;
> }
>
> asmlinkage int sys_socket(int family, int type, int protocol)
> {
> int i, fd;
> struct socket *sock;
> struct proto_ops *ops;
>
> /* Locate the correct protocol family. */
> i = find_protocol_family(family);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_KERNELD
> /* Attempt to load a protocol module if the find failed. */
> if (i < 0)
> {
> char module_name[30];
> sprintf(module_name,"net-pf-%d",family);
> request_module(module_name);
> i = find_protocol_family(family);
> }
> #endif
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Kenneth
>
> There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
Dear Ken
I had the same problem when I upgraded.
Richard Adams (don't want to take credit where it isn't due) explained
to me that it is something to do with the Appletalk protocol. It seemed
to occur on mine because fromthe original installation I ran both IPX
and Appletalk, however under 2.0.36 I compiled IPX as a module but no
Appletalk. Not sure if this is correct.
Richard's fix, which gets rid of the message is to add
alias net-pf-5 off
to the
/etc/conf.modules
Hope this helps
Paul
