From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 6:10:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1535037B406 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 06:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id g47DB9f13584; Tue, 7 May 2002 16:11:09 +0300 Message-Id: <200205071311.g47DB9f13584@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 7 May 02 16:07:01 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: shubhamr@malkauns.nsc.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:06:53 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: URGENT - to remove a driver - what to do? In-reply-to: <3CD35537.27B7D02@malkauns.nsc.com> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade 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 > I have 4.5 version installed.But some device drivers are already > compiled into the kernel,and hence it runs when ever suitable ahrdware > is detected. > Can any one tell me how to remove this driver from the kernel so that,I > can load unload dynamically(kldload,kldunload) and get my device working > based on the dynamically loaded version of the device driver? Read the online handbook at www.freebsd.org about building your custom kernel. Then remove the devices you don't want and rebuild your kernel. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Fear of crowded holiday shopping: Santaclaustrophobia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message