Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:03:17 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: lee slaughter <lee@slaughters.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: install: kernel config: NIC ? Message-ID: <20040324180317.GE25716@archangel.daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040324170938.GC1816@cs025_2k> References: <4061B855.2090001@slaughters.com> <20040324170938.GC1816@cs025_2k>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:09:38AM -0800, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * lee slaughter <lee@slaughters.com> [2004-03-24 08:50]: > > 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. > > Unfortunate perhaps. These lists remain for legacy reasons. You can delete everything listed and it'll still work, because it's for real old hw. Anything even relatively recent will be automagically detected by the kernel, unless it's so cheap, new or esoteric as to not be supported.... Kevin Kinsey
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