Re: [TCLUG:14187] compile problems: net-pf-1 module?

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>         I just tried (again) to compile 2.2.14 on my machine at home.
> everything seemed to compile fine; but when I try to boot the new kernel, it
> gives me a "modprobe: can't find module net-pf-1", repeatedly (streams down
> the screen).
>         I've tried compiling several times; with slightly different options
> each time; but I'm poking in the dark here.
> 
> can anyone tell me what's wrong?
> if not; how do I go about debugging this/what information do people need to
> debug this? I probably should include my .configure file; but I left it at
> home.. :(
> 
> other questions:
> 
> do you *have* to do "make modules" and "make modules_install" after you've
> built the bzImage? or is order not important here?
> 
> what is the 'vmlinux' file for? why does RH put a copy of it in the /boot
> directory?
> 
> how do you make an initrd image; and what does it do?

(natecars@jester)(7/pts)(11:09am:03/02/00)-
($:/home/natecars)- /sbin/modprobe -c | grep -i net-pf-1
alias net-pf-1 unix

so, it aliases to.. unix. did you remember tcp/ip support and such?

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