Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:21:26 -0500 From: Lute Mullenix <lute@cableone.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arnet Sync 570 card under FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <20031009152126.0b18fe34.lute@cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <008c01c38e75$3297e8c0$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za> References: <008c01c38e75$3297e8c0$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:54:09 +0200
"Chris Visser" <chrisv@absol.co.za> insisted:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to configure the card under FreeBSD 5.1 and assume I'll have
> to recompile my kernel for support, but none of the explanations I find
> on the net seem to work.
>
> I've tried going into /sys/compile to edit kernel and recompile but I am
> unable to go in there even as root.
>
{snip}
Are you sure you have the kernel source installed on your system? I ask this because this is what the case was the first time I tried to compile a kernel under FBSD. Because if it's not there no matter who you are you can't get into it. If you don't have it you can get it with the /stand/sysinstall utility via online or off the CD if it's included on it. If you are on a dial-up connection it's going to take a while, if it came on the CD it will go pretty fast.
Building a kernel under FreeBSD is pretty easy really, as mentioned the only real problem I have had is when I didn't have the source on my machine. Annelise Anderson's book FreeBSD An Open-Source Operating System For Your Personal Computer, is a very good resource for someone just getting started in FreeBSD. However with your Linux experience you should be able to make sense of the Handbook. I like using the online version @ freebsd.org, because I figure it's got the latest updates in it.
I have built two kernels under 5.1 now. The first was a trimmed down version for my IBM box (which died unexpectedly) and the second for the Soyo that was purchased to replace it, because it has on-board ethernet that I didn't have supported with the first kernel.
Good luck
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Lute
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