From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 17: 5: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0F414DE9 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08197; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:25:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: jesse reynolds , 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, 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 " 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