Date: 24 Nov 1998 22:25:49 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: root <root@jtrevick.student.simons-rock.edu>, lcremean@tidalwave.net, Stephen Comoletti <stevec@delanet.com>, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys NIC, was: Re: de ethernet driver -- another puzzle Message-ID: <867lwkxusy.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:08:33 -0800" References: <199811250208.SAA02572@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>> I got a Linksys EtherFast PCI card > Older Linksys cards are supported by the 'de' driver; you can tell > these because the large chip on the card has "digital" written on it. > New ones use a new chipset and require a new driver not yet integrated > into FreeBSD. Which brings me to a question I've been wondering for a week or so. Is it possible to, at boot time, load lkms? Would it be possible to put, say, the Linksys driver in an lkm and load it with GENERIC to allow just such a thing? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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