From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 11 01:21:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EEC16A404 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8886743D46 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp222-116.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.222.116]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3B1LjcB030397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:51:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:51:43 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1144672693.642.7.camel@redevil.savola.com> <20060410133708.fhnthnm3cw8gko0w@webmail.1command.com> In-Reply-To: <20060410133708.fhnthnm3cw8gko0w@webmail.1command.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1694384.XktBQd4Vlv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604111051.44329.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Chris H." Subject: Re: How can I install a driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:54 -0000 --nextPart1694384.XktBQd4Vlv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 April 2006 06:07, Chris H. wrote: > > but I have no clue how I can bypass the second step, which is installing > > the if_myk.ko to /boot/kernel > > > > I have tried to cp if_yk.ko /boot/kernel/ > > bad idea. Maybe you should elaborate as to why.. It shouldn't do any *harm*. The only downside will be that if you build a new kernel you'll no longer b= e=20 able to load it automatically (because it will be in /boot/kernel.old) =46or testing purposed you could just unpack it into, say, /tmp and then do= =20 kldload ./if_yk.ko If that works OK then copy it into /boot/modules and add if_yk_load=3D"YES" to /boot/loader.conf =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1694384.XktBQd4Vlv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEOwSo5ZPcIHs/zowRAvs0AJ9TGeTQ39ReAt90rVbJ4erbRXyFZACfQumO Pqw/p9jqe06EEiQvUzpWy+U= =9rYc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1694384.XktBQd4Vlv--