From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 4:47:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D9714BFD for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.3] (203.108.21.7) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:17:26 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:46:43 +1000 To: Alfred Perlstein From: jesse reynolds Subject: Re: how do you turn on / install drivers? (Xircom PC-Card Ethernet) Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >/book/kernel.conf is read by the kernel/loader and turns on/off >devices in the kernel that are >>compiled in<<, you can't >'en' (enable) a device that isn't compiled in, although it may >be possible to load the kld if one exists. Right. >If you kernel doesn't have the device compiled in you'll need to >recompile or load a kld. Ok, yep. >To see if the device is compiled in but possibly disabled have a >look in /var/run/dmesg.boot, it should show you what the kernel >trys to do with device drivers at bootup. Okay. I'm pretty sure that the XE driver ain't anywhere on my system. There's no mention of it in the output of dmesg, and the c files aren't where the XE installer says they should go etc. Also what worries me, is the Readme for XE says that FreeBSD doesn't support CardBus, and my dmesg says: probing pci bus... (etc) ... chip3: rev 0x01 int a irq 9 on pci0.19.0 chip4: rev 0x01 int b irq 9 on pci0.19.1 ... I don't know much about pc-card and CardBus technologies... maybe I should repost this to freebsd-hardware? cheers jesse -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au - http://virtual.artists Mobile: (+61) 0414 669 790 Faxmail: (+61) 02 9776 3594 Virtual Community Engine Email: jesse (at) va.com.au http://www.vce.net ?: http://jesse.va.com.au huh?: Content Management System ICQ: 4766684 & Application Server for Timezone: GMT +10:00 Hrs MacOS Webservers (W*API) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message