From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 22:08:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA04518 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr02.primenet.com (tlambert@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.6.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA04513 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA17444; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:08:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709200508.WAA17444@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Higher-level kernel config? To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 05:08:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Alex" at Sep 19, 97 05:15:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm curious: could there ever be a case where you would not want to > > include a driver for hardware that was actually in your machine? If > > not, then I think dynamic autoconfiguration is the way to go. > > Yes, for instance I have a 3c509 in my system, and Win98 trys to use dhcp > over it automatically, even though at the moment I'm not using an ethernet > network. 1) DHCP is not a driver. 2) Windows 98's (I assume a beta) use of DCHP by default is a configuration error. You should be led through a "setup wizard" instead. Even so, it allows you to "ignore these messages in the future" -- effectively disabling it. 3) Windows 98 is a bad reference anyway; the built-in browser will not connect to https: servers without you paying for a commercial security certificate (unlike IE3.x and NetScape, both of which prompt you to allow the site without a certificate). For example. > Or say if I wanted to use my external modem instead of my > internal without changing my /dev/modem symlink. Ah. Here's your error: /dev should be mounted as devfs, and it should be impossible for you to create symlinks like this. Even so, this is a user configuration option for the terminal/ppp software, not for a system-wide default. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.