From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 2:37: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E5437B417 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 02:37:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g26Ab2106325 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:37:02 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002030611330454:1097 ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:33:04 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g26AnwR46511 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:49:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:49:58 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm kinda happy (wasI bought your system and am not so happy!) Message-ID: <20020306104957.GH35221@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <15492.31410.219242.379055@guru.mired.org> <20020306061548.A307237B400@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020306061548.A307237B400@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/06/2002 11:33:04 AM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/06/2002 11:33:11 AM, Serialize complete at 03/06/2002 11:33:11 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > From: David Herman > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: I'm kinda happy (wasI bought your system and am not so happy!) > Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:13:13 -0800 > For example - I'm still searching the documentation for information which > will help me to get my internal ISA modem (hardware based "NOT" win modem) > working. > So far the best I've found is "recompile your kernel". I find it hard to > believe that I need to recompile my kernel as the first thing I do after > installing the OS. one of the best kept secrets on freebsd-questions@ (and in the handbook) is the fact that kernel build is a requirement in just a few special cases. Most questions that yield rebuild-your-kernel answers could (and probably should) be answered with "RTFM: kldload(8)". that said, maybe the answer you got is right. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 11:34AM up 6 days, 12:41, 16 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message