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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:08:40 -0500
From:      Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Odd messages at startup after deleting device drivers
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011123190656.02e32cf8@mail.enterit.com>
In-Reply-To: <05c501c17477$a3498840$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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At 00:36 11.24.2001 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>I got bold yesterday and went into my custom kernel configuration and 
>commented
>out all the devices that I don't have and don't think I'll be needed soon.
>Everything went find and the machine came back up (somewhat more quickly now!)
>after a reboot.  However, I see the following messages during the boot:
>
>config> di sio1
>No such device: sio1
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di sio0
>No such device: sio0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di sn0
>No such device: sn0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di lnc0
>No such device: lnc0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di ie0
>No such device: ie0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di fe0
>No such device: fe0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di cs0
>No such device: cs0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di bt0
>config> di aic0
>config> di aha0
>config> di adv0
>config> q
>
>Who generates these messages, and what do they mean?
>
>The first two ports are serial ports; I commented them out because I have
>nothing attached to the serial ports.  Should I have left them in?  I assume
>that "disable" on the device directive means "disable this device," but 
>does it
>also remove the overhead of the driver?  Maybe the system is probing or being
>probed by the serial ports even though they are not used (?).  There is no 
>modem
>card in the machine.
>
>What are lnc0, ie0, fe0, and cs0?  They were in the NIC section, so I thought
>(from the comments) that they were wireless NICs.  Apparently they are 
>something
>else.  What do they do?
>
>Also, what are the other config commmands or messages doing?  They didn't
>generate any error messages, but I don't recall seeing them on startup before
>(unless I just missed them).  I wasn't sure if I could comment them out, 
>as they
>appear to be generic SCSI controllers or something.  I commented out the SCSI
>controllers that I knew I did not have, leaving only an EISA AHA1742 family
>(because I wasn't sure if it applied to me) and a AHA2940 family (because I'm
>pretty sure it _does_ apply to me--my one and only SCSI adapter is an Adaptec
>2930).
>

cd /boot
edit kernel.conf

Remove the drivers out of there that you removed from the kernel.  I 
suggest you make a backup copy of kernel.conf first.  Then when you reboot 
the next time you shouldn't see any problems.



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