[TriLUG] questions regarding PPP and compression

[rpjday]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, M. Mueller/bhu5nji wrote:

> On Friday 28 December 2001 10:11 am, you wrote:
> >   i've just built kernel 2.4.18-pre1, then dumped CML2 and the
> > latest version of kbuild on top of that.  nothing like living
> > dangerously, i always say.
> >
> >   anyway, got PPP running for that, but curious about a couple
> > of messages in /var/log/messages i remember from way back:
> >
> >   modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
> 
> ipx
> 
> >   modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
> 
> appletalk

oooookay ... and why would firing up PPP be trying to load modules
for ipx or appletalk?  i certainly didn't select those features
either for the kernel or as modules.  am i missing something here?

rday