From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 16:57:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tcowen.com (tcowen.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.17.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5326A37B71D for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@tcowen.com) Received: by tcowen.com from localhost (router,SLMail V2.6); Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:56:31 -0500 Received: by tcowen.com from tcowen.com (24.128.17.88::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.6); Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:56:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3AC2883E.59DF3EDC@tcowen.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:56:30 -0500 From: "T.C. Owen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: kernel config, multiple questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have freebsd 4.1 release my motherboard only has pci expansion slots, can I take "device eisa" out or is it possible something still needs it? if my computer only uses ethernet, can I take out pseudo-devices ppp, sl, and tun? and if not, why? if I take out "options INET6", do I have any reason to keep pseudo-devices gif and faith? is "device miibus" only for when there is not a specific device for your NIC but you know it uses mii? i.e., if I have "device xl" (an mii ethernet NIC), do I need "device miibus" or can the code associated with device xl handle everything? thanks --T.C. Owen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message