Arne Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 Hello Guys, I am trying to sort out the problem I have with this distro. /var/log/messages report several lines with the same messages: Nov 6 13:59:04 linuxhost modprobe: WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 4: ignoring bad line starting with 'ohci-hcd;' My modprobe.conf look like this: [root@linuxhost arne]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 tulip alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ohci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true #-------> this line is bad alias net-pf-10 off What is missing??????? 2 questions: What is wrong/missing in this line????? What is the impact on the system when this line is neglected????? Can anyone please enlighten me????? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 Hello arne. I am not a technical expert on that last line but I recall that it is usually entered to speed up the browser such as firefox, knoqueror etc., I am not sure if it effects anything else. Regarding the so called bad line, that item does not appear in my modprobe.conf so I cannot help you there. I am using 2006-official with kde3.5 so things may be different. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 (edited) install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ohci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true Should all be one line: install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ohci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true Or install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe \ ohci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true Edited November 7, 2005 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Thank you steve. I just checked my modprobe.conf and now realise mine is similar but not the same, wheras I thought the line did not exist in mine. I can see how the back slash \ is used to indicate a space in the line in lieu of the line step created by the enter key. Good one. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted November 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Thanks AussieJohn and Steve Scrimpshire. It worked, the error message is gone. SOLVED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Just for info, the "alias net-pf-10 off" line disables ipv6. This is for the ethernet card in general. Within Firefox, you can do about:config, and then filter for ipv6 and change from false to true, so that only Firefox doesn't use ipv6. Then you don't have to disable ipv6 entirely on the network card if it's required for something else. I and a number of people have noticed that ipv6 can cause the network responses to be slow and/or your network card won't work at all. Most if not all people won't actually be using ipv6 for any reason whatsoever, so disabling it by adding this line doesn't cause a problem. Glad the error has disappeared now though :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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