🚀 go-pugleaf

Jay,
The messages you are seeing regarding

modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5

Are harmless, it just means that the modprobe is searching for compiled
modules you haven't compiled (If I can remeber correctly, one of them is
for an compatibility with an Apple ethernet standard), if you are using
RedHat, then it is easy to stop the modprobe for looking for these
modules by inserting the following lines into your /etc/conf.modules
file;

alias net-pf-4 off	# Don't search for IPX module
alias net-pf-5 off	# Don't search for Appletalk module

And if you don't have any scsi devices on your system, you can also add;

alias scsi_hostadapter off	#Don't look for scsi module

If you are not running RedHat, then I am not sure if this will work.
(Under Slackware, I think you can edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file to
remove unwanted modules, or there will be an equivalent /etc/rc.d/rc.*
file there that will search for the net-pf-4 and net-pf-5 stuff)

With regards to the SMC 9332-BDT fast ethernet cards, good luck. We have
had an enormous amount of trouble trying to get these cards to work
under Linux (and even Windows95) - we haven't yet isolated what the
problem is, but it may well be the hub we are using, so beware that you
may come across problems like this. On the up-side, I have heard of
successes with these cards using varying hardware, and also that the
more recent versions of these cards are more robust (We are using SMC
9332BDT 21140A-C versions of these cards).

Drivers for these cards, (and for a fair few others) can be found at the
excelent site maintained by Donald Becker.

http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/

I would recommend obtaining version tulip.c version 0.76 and compiling
as a module to be included with your kernel.

regards,
Andrew Mc.Ghee
Mechanical Engineering
University of Queensland