From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 15:52: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thalia.fm.intel.com (thalia.fm.intel.com [132.233.247.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE64D37B5CA for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:51:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackw@level1.com) Received: from mailgw.level1.com ([10.13.30.6]) by thalia.fm.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.29 2000/05/27 05:56:37 nzand Exp $) with ESMTP id WAA20418 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:52:50 GMT Received: from eldorado.scom.level1.com ([10.13.214.1] helo=mailhub.scom.level1.com) by mailgw.level1.com with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 12zokQ-0004G9-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:56:30 -0700 Received: from catera ([10.13.214.33]) by mailhub.scom.level1.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12zofa-0004oo-00; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:51:30 -0700 Received: from jackw by catera with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12zokO-0004An-00; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:56:28 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: do i need to compile for FreeBSD and how to wrtite new device driver Cc: jackw@scom.level1.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Message-Id: From: Jack Wang Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:56:28 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All: I just purchase the FreeBSD package from cdrom version 3 and install to my PC system , where rigth now I can do ls , pwd , regural commands. My next question is do I need to compile the Kernel , I'm trying to write a new device driver for FreeBSD OS can you direct to me of how to do it or where I can find the procedure to do it I'm a new FreeBSD developer person I have no knowledge at all of FreeBSD Thank You To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message