Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262347AbUK3WKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:10:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262348AbUK3WKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:10:43 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:10409 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262347AbUK3WKi (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:10:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:10:37 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] misleading error message In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <001101c4d715$25a59470$af00a8c0@BEBEL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 24 >> This may be a BUG REPORT, as I see it, allthough more experienced Linux users >> might think differently: >> >> I compiled built-in support for iptables in my new 2.6.9 kernel, but when my >> legacy firewall does a "modprobe ip_tables" , I get the startling message: >> "FATAL: module ip_tables not found" . > >In my oppinion the message is perfectly clear. You told modprobe to load a >module, the file was not found so it is forced to give up - and that's >exactely what it told you. So how would you go about finding out whether something is compiled-in? Jan Engelhardt -- ENOSPC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/