From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 0:30:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0087437B506 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 00:30:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAH8U2S41687; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 19:00:03 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001601c16f31$e8fdeac0$c2926596@slick> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:29:59 +0800 (WST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alex Subject: RE: /boot/device.hints Cc: buga@lemis.com, questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Nov-2001 Alex wrote: > The kernel should consult /boot/device.hints at boot time and record these > attributes. > I know these are the correct attributes bec I had to manually set them with > a jumper. OK.. > The strange thing is, is that using 4.4-STABLE boot disks and using > UserConfig to tell the kernel > the above attributes of my NIC, works. Hmm but 4.4 != -current :) > 1. With having the correct device.hints, shouldn't this be enough for the > kernel to know about the device ? I would think so. > 2. Have I overlooked an important step ? Perhaps check with kenv (I think) that what you set in the loader is propogated. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message