<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>recently I installed a Suse Linux 5.3 with X-windos and KDE on a notebook (the ALDI notebook !!!!). Everything had worked well and I compiled a new kernel. I compiled the kernel with network support but still without network card (loopback). But now I got strange messages after starting the system:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>login: syslogd: syslog: Unknown protocol, suspending inet service. : Invalid argument</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>socket: Invalid argument</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also during boot process a strange message appears:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>.....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>grep: /proc/net/dev: No such file or directory</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Starting syslog services.</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>....</FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>But the system still runs (so far I can evaluate this cause I'm a new user for Unix System). Are these error messages normal and because of a missing Network Card ?? I would appreciate very much any comments</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Matthias Huels<BR>GEOMAR<BR>Research Center for Marine Geosciences<BR>Wischhoftstr. 1-3<BR>D- 24148 Kiel<BR>Tel: (49) 431/600-2809<BR><A href="mailto:mhuels@geomar.de">mhuels@geomar.de</A></FONT></DIV>