Bug 30933 - iwconfig causes load of appletalk and ipx modules
Summary: iwconfig causes load of appletalk and ipx modules
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: wireless-tools
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-07 07:20 UTC by James Manning
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:19 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-03-08 03:31:02 UTC
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Description James Manning 2001-03-07 07:20:05 UTC
actually 2.4.2-0.1.16 kernel, but RC2 wireless-tools (20-4)

Mar  7 02:10:27 bp6 kernel: NET4: Linux IPX 0.44 for NET4.0 
Mar  7 02:10:27 bp6 kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. 
Mar  7 02:10:27 bp6 kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000 Conectiva, Inc. 
Mar  7 02:10:27 bp6 kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0 


iwconfig (no params) causes appletalk and ipx modules to load.
eth0 and eth1 are "normal" ethernet, eth2 is wvlan_cs

if this should get filed under kernel, please refile for me :)

I'm not sure this is a "bug" per se, but wanted to make sure
it was known behavior.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-03-08 03:30:58 UTC
It's known that it does this; dunno if it's techinically a bug or not.
I may poke at it and see if it's something that can be changed.

You can always alias those modules (net-pf-3, net-pf-4) to 'off' if you
like.

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2001-03-23 21:43:25 UTC
not a bug.  iwconfig loads them because they may be needed by a subsequent 
ifconfig.  They will get unloaded automatically if they aren't being used.



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