From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 3:45:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4531214CF7 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 03:45:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.3] (203.108.21.7) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:15:29 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:45:00 +1000 To: Alfred Perlstein , "Jason C. Wells" From: jesse reynolds Subject: Re: how do you turn on / install drivers? (Xircom PC-Card Ethernet) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:25 PM -0700 17/10/1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, jesse reynolds wrote: > > > >I know that the xircom driver is now part of 3.3 Release, but it's > > >not recognising either a CE2 or a CEM33. Might it be "disabled". Do I > > >have to recompile the kernel or can I just adjust a kernel conf file? > > > > The kernel conf file in FreeBSD is equivalent to the .config file in > > Redhat. The build of a kernel reads in to build a monolithic kernel. > >The kernel.conf file should be either in / or /boot afaik, >you want to remove the "di " lines for the drivers you >want to become re-enabled. Right. Does di=disable? Hmmm. I see that xe is not in this file. According to the XE driver readme, I should add the following lines to kernel.conf: controller card0 device pcic0 at card? device pcic1 at card? device xe0 at isa? port? net irq ? after copying some c files into /sys/i386/isa and recompiling the kernel... So, doesn't that mean I can't simply download a kld, put it in the right place, and reboot? ie, am I going to have to recompile my kernel? cheers jesse -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au - http://virtual.artists Mobile: (+61) 0414 669 790 Faxmail: (+61) 02 9776 3594 Virtual Community Engine Email: jesse (at) va.com.au http://www.vce.net ?: http://jesse.va.com.au huh?: Content Management System ICQ: 4766684 & Application Server for Timezone: GMT +10:00 Hrs MacOS Webservers (W*API) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message