From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 15:44:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.carolina.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A28B37B416 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from snafu.enterit.com ([66.57.159.198]) by mail7.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:44:42 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123190656.02e32cf8@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: jconner@enterit.com@mail.enterit.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:08:40 -0500 To: "Anthony Atkielski" From: Jim Conner Subject: Re: Odd messages at startup after deleting device drivers Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <05c501c17477$a3498840$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 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. >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - Jim -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=67861&lastnode_id=67861 -----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Version: 0.01 Version: 3.12 P++>*@$c?P6?R+++>++++@$M GIT/CM/J d++(--) s++:++ a- >++++$O!MA->++++E!> PU-->+++BD C++++(+) UB++++$L++++$S++++$ $C-@D!>++++(-)$S++++@$X?WP+>++++MO!>+++ P++(+)>+++++ L+++(++++)>+++++$ !E* +PP+++>++++n-CO?PO!o >++++G W++(+++) N+ o !K w--- PS---(-)@ PE >*(!)$A-->++++@$Ee---(-)Ev++uL++>*@$uB+ Y+>+++ PGP t+(+++)>+++@ 5- X++ R@ >*@$uS+>*@$uH+uo+w-@$m! tv+ b? DI-(+++) D+++(++) G(++++) ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message