From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 14:35:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29772 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:35:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from testlabs.com (mail.testlabs.com [207.44.171.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29767 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulh@testlabs.com) Received: from paul (207.44.171.243) by testlabs.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.2); Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:38:13 -0800 Message-ID: <00ce01bdab81$6b6edb40$f3ab2ccf@paul> From: "Paul H." To: "Thomas Dean" Cc: Subject: Re: Kernel failed Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:34:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I checked my file and both pseudo devices (loop,ether) are present. I also read the LINT section on networks and I have the following pseudo devices loop ether log sl vn tun pty gzip -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dean To: paulh@testlabs.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Kernel failed >All of these symbols are defined in /sys/net/if_ethersubr.c. > >Do you have 'pseudo-device ether'. This must be the problem. Look at >/sys/i386/conf/LINT. Read the part about network interfaces. You may >need some more things. > >... ># Network interfaces: ># The `loop' pseudo-device is MANDATORY when networking is enabled. ># The `ether' pseudo-device provides generic code to handle ># Ethernets; it is MANDATORY when a Ethernet device driver is ># configured. >... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message