From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 4 01:59:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01506 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA03907; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:59:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Richard Meyers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel rebuild In-Reply-To: <19980703010938.LQRW29455@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Richard Meyers wrote: > I have just successfully installed FreeBSD v2.2.2 on my PC. I added the > PS2 mouse device and rebuilt the kernel as required (still having mouse > probs but that's a story for another day). During the kernel rebuild I > received the following warning when it was including the > ./../i386/isa/seagate.c source code: > > 1181: warning: assignment discards 'volatile' from pointer target type. > > The kernel rebuild did not stop. I rebooted afterwards and it appears to > work fine. Then I wouldn't be worried. There are tons of warnings in the kernel, and as long as it bulds and works right they're nothign to be worried about. In fact there are several in the lpt driver in 2.2.6 that don't cause any problems at all. > P.S. Wishing that worldnet would support FreeBSD. They wouldn't even give > me their gateway IP over the phone. Gates will pay for this! RM The gateway IP is probably set dynamically anyway. If you're using user mode ppp then just give the command `add 0 0 HISADDR' to program it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message