From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 16:59:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E28E14F3E for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA79391; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:56:03 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:56:03 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: jesse reynolds Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do you turn on / install drivers? (Xircom PC-Card Ethernet) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, jesse reynolds wrote: >Hi > >Does FreeBSD have dynamicly loadable kernel modules like Linux? Yes. We call them KLDs. Kernel loadable devices. >How do I check to see if a certain driver is installed for a certain >piece of hardware? 'man kld' tells all the things I would type. >I know that the xircom driver is now part of 3.3 Release, but it's >not recognising either a CE2 or a CEM33. Might it be "disabled". Do I >have to recompile the kernel or can I just adjust a kernel conf file? The kernel conf file in FreeBSD is equivalent to the .config file in Redhat. The build of a kernel reads in to build a monolithic kernel. If there is a module for teh xircom, it will not be necessary to rebuild and reboot. >I'd like to know, in general, how you find out if a certain piece of >hardware is supported, and if so how to get it's driver installed and >working. Any clues? Hardware support is listed on the website. Also, use tho source Luke for late breaking additions. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message