From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 10:34:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDA916A4CE; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:34:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from volginfo.ru (ns.volginfo.ru [217.23.84.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD0343D55; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:34:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from den@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.32] (llp-13.vistcom.ru [217.23.84.68]) by volginfo.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8F42012; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:34:15 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <41E7A023.5010000@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:34:11 +0300 From: Denis Peplin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041008 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Fonvieille References: <200501140831.j0E8VU47050373@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050114091403.GA617@nosferatu.blackend.org> <41E78F18.6090006@FreeBSD.org> <20050114095448.GD30089@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050114102331.GB617@nosferatu.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20050114102331.GB617@nosferatu.blackend.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:34:16 -0000 Hello! Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:54:48AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>How about? >> >> Not all NIC drivers are available as modules; notable examples >> are ISA NICs. >> > > > Is it still correct? I mean in the "current" FreeBSD versions? > > I'd write something like: > > The easiest way is to simply load a kernel module for your network card > with kldload(8) (a module may not be available for all network card drivers, > it was the case in past for some ISA cards). :There is some other things in this para need attention: : To use your network card, you will need to load the proper : driver. Only if it is not present in GENERIC or custom kernel. : If your card : was detected at boot by your kernel :(GENERIC) - you do not have to build a new kernel. + you do not have to load kerner module or build a new kernel.