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Subject: Re: NETGRAPH error message on boot
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 07:17:52 -0400
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Too bad they just wouldn't fix the broken module loading code.  I never had
this problem in 3.4-REL, but then along came 4.0-REL and it's been broken
since then.. :(

> I had exactly the same experience ... put all lines in the kernel file
> & problem disappears. There was a discussion of this stuff a while
> back that resulted in a PR being submitted re rewording the relevant
> handbook section.
>
> > > I have been doing the necessary steps to get DSL running on my
> > > machine, which is now up and running fine.
> > >
> > > On boot however, I get this error;
> > >
> > > module_register: module netgraph already exists!
> > > linker_file_sysinit: "netgraph.ko" failed to register
> > >
> > > So I assumed that somehow, since NETGRAPH is compiled into the
> > > kernel (options NETGRAPH only) that it was trying to load the
> > > module.
> > >
> > > So I figured, I'd take the one out of the kernel, if it's going to
> > > load the NETGRAPH module separately. But that was a no go.
> > > So I have in back in the kernel, DSL working fine, but this
> > > error message happening every boot.
> > >
> > > Anyone know why the error message?
> >
> > There is a problem with the dynamic loading of kernel modules,
especially
> > when some dependent modules are in the kernel and some are not.  I've
been
> > told this is in the process of being fixed.
> >
> > To use PPPoE without problems, make sure you've got these lines in your
> > kernel config:
> >
> > options NETGRAPH
> > options NETGRAPH_SOCKET
> > options NETGRAPH_ETHER
> > options NETGRAPH_PPPOE
> >
> > --
> > Matt Emmerton
>
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