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From: Alex <lex@internode.on.net>
Subject: /boot/device.hints
To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Ok,

I have added this to device.hints:

hint.ed.0.at="isa"
hint.ed.0.port="0x300"
hint.ed.0.irq="10"
hint.ed.0.maddr="0xcc000"

And the NIC still doesn't get detected by the kernel.

The kernel should consult /boot/device.hints at boot time and record these
attributes.

I know these are the correct attributes bec I had to manually set them with
a jumper.

The strange thing is, is that using  4.4-STABLE boot disks and using
UserConfig to tell the kernel
the above attributes of my NIC, works.

However, I really want to avoid having to add options:

USERCONFIG, INTRO_USERCONFIG, or VISUAL_USERCONFIG to the kernel and boot
with -c.

Questions:

1. With having the correct device.hints, shouldn't this be enough for the
kernel to know about the device ?

2. Have I overlooked an important step ?

 Thanks

 - Alex





----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: "Alex" <lex@internode.on.net>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>; <buga@lemis.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: RE: boot.config


>
> On 15-Nov-2001 Alex wrote:
> >  1. Is it the case that UserConfig is *not* an option in the GENERIC
kernel
> >  for 5.0-CURRENT?
>
> Correct.. Userconfig is mostly useless now. You are supposed to use hints.
>
> I can't remember how to edit them from the loader.. Go read some -current
email
> like you're supposed to when you run -current :)
>
> ---
> 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


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