From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 17: 4:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744F937B718 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id B101455407; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FD751610; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:54:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:54:18 -0800 (PST) From: Linh Pham To: "T.C. Owen" Cc: Subject: Re: kernel config, multiple questions In-Reply-To: <3AC2883E.59DF3EDC@tcowen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-03-28, T.C. Owen scribbled: # my motherboard only has pci expansion slots, can I take "device eisa" # out or is it possible something still needs it? That's what I do... even though you may or may not have ISA slots... keep it since chipsets use the ISA bus for several physical and several not so physical devices. # if my computer only uses ethernet, can I take out pseudo-devices ppp, # sl, and tun? and if not, why? Again, I do that as well. # if I take out "options INET6", do I have any reason to keep # pseudo-devices gif and faith? You can remove it. # is "device miibus" only for when there is not a specific device for your # NIC but you know it uses mii? i.e., if I have "device xl" (an mii # ethernet NIC), do I need "device miibus" or can the code associated with # device xl handle everything? If you have devices that require MII (usually listed right below the mii device), keep it. If not, you should be safe by commenting it out :) -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message