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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:23:31 +0100
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <20050114102331.GB617@nosferatu.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050114095448.GD30089@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
References:  <200501140831.j0E8VU47050373@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050114091403.GA617@nosferatu.blackend.org> <41E78F18.6090006@FreeBSD.org> <20050114095448.GD30089@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:54:48AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-01-14 12:21, Denis Peplin <den@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> >>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:31:30AM +0000, Denis Peplin wrote:
> >>> Modified files:
> >>>   en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml
> >>> Log:
> >>> Do not say that ed loadable module is not available - it is available for
> >>> both 4.X and 5.X
> >>
> >> The "(ISA cards, for example)" sounds really weird, it does not match
> >> with the rest of the sentence since it talks about drivers.
> >
> > Is this better?
> > -       network card drivers (ISA cards, for example).
> > +       network cards (ISA cards, for example).
> 
> Hi Dennis and everyone :)
> 
> 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).

Marc



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