From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 11:20:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D8616A4CE; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (rtfm.spawar.navy.mil [198.253.71.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6700B43D45; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Received: from slaughters.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2OJIuOO007491; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:18:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Message-ID: <4061DF20.80308@slaughters.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:18:56 -0800 From: lee slaughter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <4061B855.2090001@slaughters.com> <20040324183024.GC68070@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040324183024.GC68070@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: install: kernel config: NIC ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lee@slaughters.com List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:20:38 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:33:25AM -0800, lee slaughter wrote: > > >>I'm trying to do a methodical install (for once). 4.9 from a mini CD. >>1st thing, when we get to kernel config menu, visual mode, >>no network devices show up active. In the inactive drivers section >>i see a little list of only six. >> >>question 1: this is hardly a comprehensive list, is it? >>there's no explanation in the handbook why it is so short. >> >> > >That configuration screen only shows ancient ISA cards that cannot >identify themselves to the system. Any modern NIC (either PCI or >Cardbus) will be autodetected. Basically you can just plough on >reguardless with your install and all of your network interfaces >should be picked up. > A note to this effect should be in handbook. How do you make sugs to handbook? Or any docs? (I've cc'd freebsd-doc on ths) In fact it might be safe to say that if you pop the hood of your PC and there are _no_ ISA cards then you can skip kernel config step? lee