Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:28:59 -0400 (EDT) From: hometeam <hometeam@techpower.net> To: up@3.am Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel config 102 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909031725370.1896-100000@techpower.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909031534480.13488-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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That is not a probe attempt that is a manual attempt at boot time
using -c option. try the FAQ manual has a wealth of info on config file.
also LINT.
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 up@3.am wrote:
>
> There's clearly something I just don't get about FreeBSD kernel
> configuration here, and I can't seem to find any reference to it. my
> config file has the following ISA network interfaces commented out:
>
> # Order is important here due to intrusive probes, do *not* alphabetize
> # this list of network interfaces until the probes have been fixed.
> # Right now it appears that the ie0 must be probed before ep0. See
> # revision 1.20 of this file.
>
> # device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
> # device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000
> # device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10
>
> <snip>
>
> yet /var/log/messages show some kind of probe attempt:
>
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: config> di ex0
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: No such device: ex0
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: config> di ep0
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: No such device: ep0
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: config> di ed0
> Sep 3 15:27:32 edward /kernel: No such device: ed0
>
> <snip a list of same devices in different order>
>
> I'm trying to isolate a problem that happens during soft reboots and was
> wondering if this could have anything to do with it...
>
> TIA<
>
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