From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 20:27:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21903 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:27:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (31-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21896; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA14790; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:25:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Mike Smith Cc: root , lcremean@tidalwave.net, Stephen Comoletti , "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys NIC, was: Re: de ethernet driver -- another puzzle References: <199811250208.SAA02572@dingo.cdrom.com> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 24 Nov 1998 22:25:49 -0600 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:08:33 -0800" Message-ID: <867lwkxusy.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I got a Linksys EtherFast PCI card > Older Linksys cards are supported by the 'de' driver; you can tell > these because the large chip on the card has "digital" written on it. > New ones use a new chipset and require a new driver not yet integrated > into FreeBSD. Which brings me to a question I've been wondering for a week or so. Is it possible to, at boot time, load lkms? Would it be possible to put, say, the Linksys driver in an lkm and load it with GENERIC to allow just such a thing? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message