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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13 i686)

Description of problem:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions uses "modprobe" to probe
for needed network modules, but on kernels where modules are disabled, this
modprobe command fails and causes "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start" to
fail.  It seems the network-functions in RH 7.2 assumes modules are always
enabled?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try and start networking
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  [root@animal libwww-perl-5.60]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
restart
Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface lo:                                  [  OK  ]
Cannot send dump request: Connection refused
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.14_ext3_11-15-02/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
Cannot send dump request: Connection refused
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.14_ext3_11-15-02/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

Expected Results:  Setting network
parameters:                                [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface lo:                                  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:                                [  OK  ]


Additional info:

I am going to recompile the kernel we are using (2.4.14 w/ ext3 patch)
to use modules for now, but network-functions should maybe have error
checking to not modprobe if kernel modules aren't installed?