From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 1:15:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10ADE37B684 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 26701 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Feb 2001 09:15:15 -0000 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:15:15 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Duraid Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: plug and play in freebsd Message-ID: <20010226111515.A26279@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <3A995A01.D2D4D346@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A995A01.D2D4D346@home.com>; from latif2221@home.com on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 07:16:17PM +0000 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun 2001-02-25 (19:16), Duraid wrote: > moving from linux: how are isa card detected and installed under > freebsd.... is there plug and play support or i have to use tools like > isapnp like in linux 2.2.x. also is the freebsd kernel modular or all > the hardware drivers must be compiled in the kernel? ISA cards can be detected via configuration or plug and play, depending on the device. The kernel can use modules, which are sometimes auto-loaded (filesystems, explicit configuration of network devices, &c.). They can also be pre-loaded in the loader, or loaded and unloaded after boot. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message