Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:25:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do you turn on / install drivers? (Xircom PC-Card Ethernet) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910171723280.8080-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910180450210.79335-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > 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. The kernel.conf file should be either in / or /boot afaik, you want to remove the "di <driver_name>" lines for the drivers you want to become re-enabled. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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