From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 29 10:21:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26675 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26665 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA15484; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:10:52 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: How do I ... To: lile@stdio.com (Larry Lile) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:10:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: imp@village.org, peter@netplex.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Larry Lile" at Dec 29, 98 01:08:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am still working on my token-ring driver and have the same needs. > Rebuilding and rebooting is a huge waste of time, but since there is > no facility for removing network interfaces it seems the only way. you could look at how the pcmcia support for network cards is done. I seem to remember they leave some stuff resident but have a "not-present" flag to take care of the cases when the interface is removed. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message