From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 18:50:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D3B16A405 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from burningc@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.ORG [192.94.73.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14AC213C457 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:50:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from burningc@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (burningc@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.1]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0LId5Gi007136 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:39:05 GMT Received: (from burningc@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.8/8.12.8/Submit) id l0LIdRgq009961; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:39:27 GMT Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:39:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Glenn Becker To: DIST - FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: identifying hardware for kernel config purposes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:50:25 -0000 Hi - I am following along in the Handbook in my first attempt to compile a custom kernel ... and once again confronting the fact that I really know beans about hardware. So once I get to the "device" lines in my edited copy of the GENERIC config file I start to get a little bit lost. I know enough to look through /var/run/dmesg.boot, and many devices make themselves obvious (a DVD-ROM drive is a DVD-ROM drive is a ...) but how do I identify my motherboard, for example, so I know which lines to comment out (or conversely, leave in) in the kernel config file? If there is a good overall guide to info like this, I'd appreciate it if someone would point it out to me. :^) I also get lost in the alphabet soup of ATA, PCI, SCSI and so on. Thanks in advance for any guidance. I didn't want to attach my whole dmesg.boot file but will do so if that will help. Best, Glenn +-----------------------------------------------------+ Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org +-----------------------------------------------------+