From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 18:41:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts11.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893C037B405 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.149.34]) by tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011124024154.JBJP24249.tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:41:54 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fAO2XfW44642; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:33:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004a01c17491$93544d20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "Jim Conner" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123190656.02e32cf8@mail.enterit.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123215832.02f4cad0@mail.enterit.com> Subject: Re: Odd messages at startup after deleting device drivers Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:41:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 00:56 11.24.2001 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >Jim writes: > > > > > cd /boot > > > edit kernel.conf > > > >Thanks. Where in the handbook is the purpose of this file mentioned? I did a > >search on www.freebsd.org and found only one hit, and only because it was > >shown > >in a listing of boot messages. > > Hmm. That is a very good question. Perhaps someone else here knows > because this is something I happened upon myself a long time ago when I was > messin around with my new kernel. Some network cards, such as those using the 'ed' driver, have IRQ, port and memory addresses specified in the kernel configuration file. If you should happen to replace a failed card with a replacement, that has different settings, you can just edit a few lines in /boot/kernel.conf rather than rebuilding the entire kernel with the new settings. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message