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Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> One of the things that has always bugged me about installing kernel drivers
> that aren't part of a 'stock' distribution is working out where to put
> what, and those trivial edits of files.i386 etc.

you don't need to edit that...
the file  /sys/i386/conf/files.XXX is also searched for
configuration XXX.


it should also look at files.local but that seems to have been
removed some time in history..