From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 21 06:18:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17634 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 06:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17622 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 06:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id PAA04222 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:23:37 +0200 (SAT) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 4220; Tue Jul 21 15:23:35 1998 From: Graham Wheeler Message-Id: <199807211322.PAA03583@cdsec.com> Subject: Building a kernel with PCI devices To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:22:43 +0200 (SAT) Cc: gram@gram.cdsec.com (Graham Wheeler) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25-h4.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I was just wondering: if one is creating a config file for a kernel that should support multiple 3Com 3C59x NICs, should one have multiple vx entries in the config? I have built a kernel with: device vx0 device vx1 device vx2 The resulting kernel does support multiple cards, but I thought that it may be possible to use just a single vx entry and still be able to support multiple cards. The same question applies to the tx, fxp and de drivers. Does anyone know? TIA gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)23-6065/6/7 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Mobile: +27(83)253-9864 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message