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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:06:42 +0200
From:      Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/39824: Various tweaks for doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml; corresponding comment clarification for GENERIC
Message-ID:  <20020708200642.GG1126@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
In-Reply-To: <a05200116b94f91461122@[129.85.219.160]>
References:  <200207030020.g630K4GZ037338@freefall.freebsd.org> <a05200101b94e93ff99e7@[64.81.19.109]> <20020708183507.GE1126@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> <a05200116b94f91461122@[129.85.219.160]>

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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:
> 	Yep, that's you. I looked in there, added USB modules, and 
> made my system un-bootable for a while, so I'm not ready to take on 
> an explanation of how to load modules.

I'm sorry to hear that you experienced problems. However, that's how it
is supposed to work in theory, but in practice not everything may have
been groovy.

> 	Does the ipfw stuff in /etc/defaults/rc.conf depend on 
> manually adding ipfw to /boot/loader.conf to work? I've been looking 
> for info on loading modules, but it's pretty sparse.

AFAIK, ipfw can be made to work in this way too. Some modules even
should be able to load themselves on-demand before they are first
needed, but I do not know what are these. (One tip: do not expect this
method to work with the msdosfs module and a floppy)

Unfortunately, on -CURRENT it is not advisable to have modules (it
crashes enough as is) so I have everything compiled into the kernel. And
my machine is slow, so compiling new kernels to test this would take a
long time... however, this may be a good project for someone with a
gigahertz machine, I am told kernel builds really take no time on
those:-)))

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szombathely Hungary

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