Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 03:44:44 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: -Vince- <vince@apollo.cosc.gov> Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option Message-ID: <199511011144.DAA10910@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 95 03:33:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951101033216.15405T-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV>
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>On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > >> >> > I know what you mean here but like is there a easy way to figure out >> > which devices I don't have? >> > > > ie0 not found at 0x360 >> > > > ep0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > ix0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > le0: no board found at 0x300 >> > > > le0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > lnc0 not found at 0x280 >> > > > lnc1 not found at 0x300 >> > > > ze0 not found at 0x300 >> > > > zp0 not found at 0x300 >> >> but be careful on deleting network cards. Some network card drivers won't >> work at all if other drivers are taken out (this was true on 2.0R, not >> tested on 2.05R, but the code has not changed much). in particular, ep0 >> won't work right if some of the other drivers are removed (forget which >> ones ...) > > Oh okay so I just remove whatever is not found from the dmesg >output in the kernel config file and that should do? I don't think you need to worry about this. I'm not aware of any bugs like this in -stable or -current. There *are* drivers that will conflict with others during the device probe, however, so it is wise to remove any device drivers from your kernel for devices that you don't have. -DG
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