net-pf-4 refers to IPX, net-pf-5 refers to appletalk. You might
check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt :)

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Matt Housh                         email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist                University of Tulsa
                           Engineering and Natural Sciences

    "I don't remember yesterday. And today, it rained."

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Horne wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I installed RH 5.1 with no problems. However, having rebuilt the kernel with
> some bits removed, SCSI support, etc, I now get a message at boot-up and
> shutdown along the lines of:
>    modprobe: Unable to locate module net-pf-4
>    modprobe: Unable to locate module net-pf-5
> 
> The msg prior to this is (along the lines of):
>   Random seed starting...
> 
> I can find no reference anywhere as to what net-pf-4 (or 5) are. Any ideas?
> I've tried using modprobe and find/egrep of the modules and kernel
> directories...but zilch. Any ideas what they are? They don't seem to affect
> the system from running okay, but I'd like to know what it is that I've
> removed. I could start adding the modules back in one-by-one to see what
> happens but that's a bit long-winded. If modprobe is intelligent enough to
> say it can't find something, then it should be able to say a bit more about
> what/where the module is/should be.
> 
> John.
> 
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