[ale] almost there

[Chris Ricker]

On 20 May, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Lisa Chiang wrote:
>> 1.  I need to recompile a new pcmcia modules so I can use my pcmcia modem to
>> dial my ISP.  (I have to use my old kernel and pcmcia until I reinstall a new on
>> e compatible with 2.0.34pre). I don't expect this to be a problem.
>> 
> 	I am not sure about the FTP location for this... check the
> Documentation directory for Changelog and Readme files which should
> contain that information for you...

As I recall, it's ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/, but I don't have
time to check that right now....

>> 2.  I get the following error when booting this kernel:
>> 
>> Can't find module netpf-4 and netpf-5
>> 
> 	This is most probably the appletalk and IPX support modules... I
> usually just recompile the kernel with them as modules so it has the stubs
> in the kernel and I don't get these messages... 

Even easier:  just add

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

to /etc/conf.modules (or /etc/modules.conf or whatever it's called on
your system).  The daemon that autoloads modules will then just ignore
requests for those two.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                        kaboom at gatech.edu