Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:42:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modules: how to use? Message-ID: <19991007154257.I78191@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070253100.393-100000@thelab.hub.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910070253100.393-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Thursday, 7 October 1999 at 3:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their > kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Yes, it's funny how the Linuxers rave about loadable modules. It's a good idea, but I don't see anything that spectacular about it. > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove > "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... > > crashes... How? > so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module? > > checked the kld man page, and nothing in there appears to be > appropriate...and just looked at my /usr/src/etc/rc* files to see if maybe > it was something I was supposed to configure in there, but nothing appears > to be in tehre either... > > Help? Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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