From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 09:48:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A33916A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (rtfm.spawar.navy.mil [198.253.71.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F32743D2D for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:48:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Received: from slaughters.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2OHl1OO007289; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:47:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Message-ID: <4061C995.6070109@slaughters.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:47:01 -0800 From: lee slaughter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Risdon References: <4061B855.2090001@slaughters.com> <4061C090.9090208@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <4061C090.9090208@circlesquared.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: install: kernel config: NIC ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lee@slaughters.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:48:52 -0000 Peter Risdon wrote: > lee slaughter wrote: > >> I'm trying to do a methodical install (for once). 4.9 from a mini CD. >> 1st thing, when we get to kernel config menu, visual mode, >> no network devices show up active. In the inactive drivers section >> i see a little list of only six. >> >> question 1: this is hardly a comprehensive list, is it? >> there's no explanation in the handbook why it is so short. > > > > I haven't seen this documented either, but reckon these are just the > drivers that might need to have resources set explicitly to avoid > conflicts. Since that means they're all ISA cards, you can generally > just delete them all to remove all conflicts. But see below: I suppose it might be clear from inference and maybe I should have thought of it. But a clarifying note in the handbook would help. > Just carry on. The drivers for PCI-only cards (like yours) don't need > to be listed here because resources conflicts don't occur as they used > to with mis-configured ISA setups. This section isn't listing _all_ > available drivers, just those (for ISA cards) that might have > conflicts and/or need arguments to match resource (irq, base address) > settings. Just something to this effect in the handbook. again, thanks all. lee