Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:51:32 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: blackend@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20050114.135132.112620761.imp@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <20050114111005.GC617@nosferatu.blackend.org> References: <20050114102331.GB617@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20050114102937.GA31098@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050114111005.GC617@nosferatu.blackend.org>
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> In fact with old ISA cards and 4.X, you have to pass some settings to > the card (I/O port, IRQ, etc.), and the easiest way to do it is via the > kernel config line (it's possible to override at boot these settings but > not easy, if my memories are good), so in that case the modules bring > nothing. To sum up, it may be a good thing to push ISA NIC users to > build a custom kernel to support their cards. I'd even add does it > worth to talk too much about ISA NICs? Non PNP cards, yes. In 5.x, you can add a few lines to loader.conf and/or device.hints and load just fine. Warner
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