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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:29:30 -0600
From:      Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
To:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting with modules
Message-ID:  <20010320022930.A1089@cec.wustl.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010320020229.A435@edgemaster.zombie.org>; from smkelly@zombie.org on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:02:29AM -0600
References:  <20010319235314.A444@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010319230008.B15322@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010320013443.A472@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20010319235300.A16082@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010320020229.A435@edgemaster.zombie.org>

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Well... I know that xl and dc get along just fine, since the packets you
have received that constitute this message passed through a
firewally/router using xl0 and dc0 as the two network interfaces.

Have you built a kernel with all these options built in? Is there still
trouble? Why do you need /boot/loader to load them right away? Won't the
kernel automatically load the modules the first time they are used?

I've always believed in the one-giant-kernel point of view. Most things,
definitely NIC drivers, should be built right into the kernel. Try this
first. If recognition still fails, maybe you have broken or conflicting
hardware.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:02:29AM -0600, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Andrew Hesford
ajh3@chmod.ath.cx

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