From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 30 14:16:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from io.checker.org (h24-66-174-118.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.174.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B4D14EFB for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 14:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@checker.org) Received: from io.checker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by io.checker.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21353C9 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 14:18:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 12:16:46 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:18:54 -0700 From: Jake Burkholder Message-Id: <19990530211854.21353C9@io.checker.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 30 May 1999, Yaroslav Halchinsky wrote: > > > Don't you find editing config file MUCH more easy thing than answering > > series of dumb questins again and again? > > *I* do, yes. In fact, I hate any other way. But I've heard it as a > about 10 times now from people currently using Linux. And oddly enough, it > seems to be the one thing that causes people to not use FreeBSD (and these > were not exactly *nix newbies). Yeah, we get this alot on IRC. Linux people seem to need it. Another idea, (just an idea, I don't know enough to volunteer) would be to take the output of dmesg from the generic kernel, and make a config file from that, which would just have the drivers that were found. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message