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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:11:58 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?
Message-ID:  <20091210201158.GA4585@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200912100939.07116.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
References:  <200912100939.07116.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:39:03AM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
<snip>
> Also, is there anyway to detect if there are hardware without drivers (su=
ch as=20
> a sound card without any snd_ loaded) and to detect the type of device (e=
=2Eg.=20
> network, usb, sound, graphics)?

pciconf -lv|less

Every device name (the lines with the @ in them) that starts with 'none' do=
es
not have a driver loaded. The following lines show you what kind of device =
it is.

> Lastly, is there any way to determine what 'modules' a kernel is build wi=
th?

ls /boot/kernel/

All the files that end in .ko are loadable modules.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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