From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 09:45:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA14206 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA14196 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:45:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA00203; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:42:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:42:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Hearn cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Steve Hearn wrote: > I'm having trouble detecting my Adaptec 2940 UW PCI controller. > I believe the ahc0 is the appropriate device. > > But I can't see that particular device (ahc0) anywhere in the list > as the machine boots. > > 1. Does anyone know at what point in the 'list' it should be: > Should it be towards the end, following 'Probing for devices on PCI > bus'? It should probe somewhere in there. > 2. Is it possible that that particular device isn't included in the > generic kernel, and that I have to build a special kernel? No, I'm quite sure ahc is in GENERIC. Have you tried disabling the devices that you don't have in UserConfig (boot: -c)? Have you given the device an IRQ, if you need to assign it manually? (some older BIOSes do this) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major