From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 6:50:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C2137B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 06:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-140-184.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.140.184]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA10052; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:46:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <003e01c0ca69$8e483e90$b88e093d@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: "Kris Kennaway" , "Gerry Freymann" , References: <001301c0c9fd$47740ab0$328e093d@oracle> <20010420221800.A7521@xor.obsecurity.org> <00a001c0ca24$f7354230$328e093d@oracle> <20010421010603.A9128@xor.obsecurity.org> <006201c0ca56$79b46e80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <001001c0ca59$296a0d10$b88e093d@oracle> <002201c0ca64$d1567b20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: PPPoE causes a Kernel Panic Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:46:59 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But you only get a message when a) the appropriate modules aren't statically linked and b) the required modules aren't present. If you're not cutting corners when making a kernel (and installing it), then you should have all the modules, so you should never have a problem with this -- regardless of whether the "additional lines" are included in the kernel config or not. > > Because of this, I don't consider it to be a bug, but rather, it's similar > to attempting to use sound devices without making the requisite entires in > /dev -- you can't expect it to work properly with half of the pieces > missing. > > -- many of us wouldn't recognize a "statically linked module" if attacked by one in a dark street !!! ..... surely its better to explain things properly in the first place to stop this sort of error message happening ?? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message