From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 20 22:24:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0063B37B403 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from smtp.bmi.net (dsl-154.bmi.net [207.173.60.230]) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA19067; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:24:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:24:33 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Urban Tuk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ko modules and irqs Message-ID: <20010620222433.A598@johncoop> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from ubentuk@hotmail.com on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 21:51:54 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Lines: 22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001.06.20 21:51 Urban Tuk wrote: > Is there a document that outlines how to > use freebsd .ko modules. I have an ISA > ethernet card with a hard-wired irq and io. > I was wondering if it was possible > to insert the ethernet module with irq and io > like under Linux with insmod? > Or, are you forced to create a kernel with the > values hard wired in? > > --Tuk > You need to setup up /boot/loader.conf to read /boot/kernel.conf and then put the necessary port, irq, flags, etc. entries in /boot/kernel.conf. It's even possible to do this using either USERCONFIG or VISUALCONFIG interfaces--provided that /boot/loader.conf is properly setup to load /boot/kernel.conf. jmc (objectionable ad for MacroHard deleted!! :) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message