From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 20 0: 2:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (edgemaster.creighton.edu [147.134.107.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A42F37B726 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smkelly@zombie.org) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B4761991A; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:02:29 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:02:29 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting with modules Message-ID: <20010320020229.A435@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <20010319235314.A444@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010319230008.B15322@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010320013443.A472@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010319235300.A16082@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010319235300.A16082@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:53:00PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:53:00PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Okay, so what you're actually saying is that if you don't tell the > loader to load miibus.ko (which is a required dependency of if_xl.ko), > then if_xl.ko doesn't load properly even though it's registered as > being loaded? It wasn't terribly clear in your initial mail what you No. My initial point was basically "It isn't loading everything it is supposed to be loading." I was simplifying the problem since I had a lack of information on the topic and wanted to see if anybody knew anything about it before I dug in deeper. > claimed the problem was (everything else seems to be okay, at least at > first glance). There may be some problem with module dependencies, I > don't know. What happens if you explicitly load miibus in > loader.conf? No matter whether I specify miibus or not in loader.conf, it still fails to load if_xl.ko even though it is registered. If, however, I remove if_dc.ko and miibus.ko from loader.conf, then if_xl.ko will load properly. It seems to me that the two modules (xl and dc) don't get along, or that there is some sort of limit to the number of modules it wants to load. --=20 Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: 77042C7B smkelly@zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org For PGP key, send e-mail with subject "send pgp key" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message