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> Slava Voronin <
> wrote:
>
> > By the way I have the same problem with ifconfig .
> > It take 5 sec to get it back. I never seen this before, but this happened
> > to both computers running debian. I did resent upgrade . I think it is a soft
>
> Me to have the problem... Doin' a strace on ifconfig, shows that it seems to have
> problem with
>
> socket(PF_IPX, SOCK_DGRAM, [PF_UNSPEC]) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> socket(PF_AX25, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> socket(PF_APPLETALK, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>
> I do not know why... I have both IPX/AX25/APPLETALK made as modules, and
>
> alias net-pf-3 off # no ax25 module available (yet)
> alias net-pf-4 off # if you don't use the ipx module
> alias net-pf-5 off # if you don't use the appletalk/DDP module
>
> in /etc/conf.modules. I to is running the absolute latest Debian...
>
> Loading the ipx/ax25/appletalk modules manually 'solves' the problem, ie,
> it does not wait any longer...
Hmm. I was running 2.1.125, which is supposed to modprobe automagically.
Why didn't it?
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