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From: "Tealby, Kevin" <ktealby@mmail.indcom.gov.au>
To: "'smtp:grog@freebie.lemis.com'" <grog@freebie.lemis.com>,
        Leif Neland <leif@roskildebc.dk>
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Subject: Re: adding a device to a freebsd machine
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 97 07:52:00 +10
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Thanks very much for your responses!!! The answer to my problem was to use 
the -c flag when booting. I hadn't actually built the kernel. Sorry about my 
poor choose of words in describing the problem.

All the best
Kevin
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> From: Leif Neland
> To: Tealby, Kevin
> Cc: 'smtp:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'
> Subject: Re: adding a device to a freebsd machine
> Date: Thursday, 11 September 1997 10:18AM
>
> At 17:46 11-09-97 +10, Tealby, Kevin wrote:
> >
> >I built a FreeBSD box with the ne2000 device driver disabled. I have 
since
> >experienced troubles with the pci network card I was using and want to 
use
> >an ne2000 card.
>
> Explain "build" Have you compiled your own kernel, or just configured it
> with the visual configuration tool at installation?
>
> If the latter, just give the option -C when booting, then you get into the
> same configuration tool as when you installed.
>
> If you have build your own kernel, then just alter the configfile
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/<YOUR_CONFIG_NAME> and re-build.
>
> But then, if you had built your own kernel, then I guess you would know
> that allready...
>
>
> Leif Neland                     work: leif@roskildebc.dk
> Systemadministrator             private: leifn@roskildebc.dk
> Roskilde Business College
>