From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 1 03:52:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA11659 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 03:52:10 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA11654 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 03:52:07 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id DAA00402; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 03:51:56 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id DAA10910; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 03:44:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199511011144.DAA10910@corbin.Root.COM> To: -Vince- cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , Ollivier Robert , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 95 03:33:09 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 03:44:44 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > >> >> > I know what you mean here but like is there a easy way to figure out >> > which devices I don't have? >> > > > ie0 not found at 0x360 >> > > > ep0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > ix0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > le0: no board found at 0x300 >> > > > le0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > lnc0 not found at 0x280 >> > > > lnc1 not found at 0x300 >> > > > ze0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > zp0 not found at 0x300 >> >> but be careful on deleting network cards. Some network card drivers won't >> work at all if other drivers are taken out (this was true on 2.0R, not >> tested on 2.05R, but the code has not changed much). in particular, ep0 >> won't work right if some of the other drivers are removed (forget which >> ones ...) > > Oh okay so I just remove whatever is not found from the dmesg >output in the kernel config file and that should do? I don't think you need to worry about this. I'm not aware of any bugs like this in -stable or -current. There *are* drivers that will conflict with others during the device probe, however, so it is wise to remove any device drivers from your kernel for devices that you don't have. -DG