From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 6 23:13:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F39114F57 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA89750; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:42:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:42:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modules: how to use? Message-ID: <19991007154257.I78191@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 7 October 1999 at 3:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their > kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Yes, it's funny how the Linuxers rave about loadable modules. It's a good idea, but I don't see anything that spectacular about it. > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove > "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... > > crashes... How? > so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module? > > checked the kld man page, and nothing in there appears to be > appropriate...and just looked at my /usr/src/etc/rc* files to see if maybe > it was something I was supposed to configure in there, but nothing appears > to be in tehre either... > > Help? Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message