From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 21 08:45:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8D516A40F for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7FA43D49 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:45:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7H007IL9NS0870@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:45:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7H00JLU9NSJDR0@pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:45:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx.cydem.org ([24.87.27.3]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7H00JPE9NRZE90@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:45:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:45:25 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <45399C59.8000302@evildomain.org> To: Undisclosed.Recipients: ; Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <200610210145.26143.soralx@cydem.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200610200251.40894.soralx@cydem.org> <200610201931.08399.soralx@cydem.org> <45399C59.8000302@evildomain.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Subject: Re: windoze 'kldload' equivalent X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:45:28 -0000 > >> is there? anyone brave enough to use windows (the nerve-wrecking > >> type -- without the X)? > > maybe somebody could suggest where to start looking? there _must_ be > > a mechanism to load kernel modules (drivers)... > with windows, all you need to do is tell windows where to look when you > put in a piece of hardware, or run the installer that comes with it. I'm booting from a live-cd, and the stupid thing tries to copy the driver files to it's system dir (which obviously it can't) before loading them [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2