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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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